HueComb

Sour Cherry

#e24736

A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#e24736

RGB

226, 71, 54

OKLCh

61.7% 0.194 29.9°

CIELAB (D50)

53.7, 60.1, 45.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.5; on black, Lc -35.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 38.1 and 42.5 and 47.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.05:1 — large text only

Black text

5.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d93e2e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#e24736

protanopia

#696938 · ΔE00 38.1

deuteranopia

#8d8d28 · ΔE00 42.5

tritanopia

#abab00 · ΔE00 47.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCarpaccio at ΔE00 0.757: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.