Phoenix Red
#e2725b
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e2725b
RGB
226, 114, 91
OKLCh
67.7% 0.144 32.9°
CIELAB (D50)
61.3, 43.1, 33.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.4; on black, Lc -44.4. 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 31.4 and 34.9 and 42.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.09:1 — large text only
Black text
6.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c2553f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e2725b
protanopia
#85855c · ΔE00 31.4
deuteranopia
#9e9e55 · ΔE00 34.9
tritanopia
#b5b500 · ΔE00 42.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrangeville at ΔE00 0.678: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- OrangevilleΔE00 0.678 · #e57059
- Rustic PotteryΔE00 0.905 · #df745b
- AnnularΔE00 1.44 · #e17861
- Autumn EnchantmentΔE00 1.688 · #ea6f5b
- Rich Georgia ClayΔE00 2.056 · #de7a63
- Flamenco PinkΔE00 2.277 · #df7b62
- SariΔE00 2.419 · #e47c64
- Dusty OrangeΔE00 2.45 · #e16d4f
- Entan RedΔE00 2.493 · #ec6d51
- MettwurstΔE00 2.78 · #df7163
- Coral OrangeΔE00 2.817 · #e4694c
- Connect RedΔE00 2.844 · #eb6651
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.