Strawberry Memory
#e2958d
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e2958d
RGB
226, 149, 141
OKLCh
74.5% 0.095 26.1°
CIELAB (D50)
69.5, 29.1, 16.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.3; on black, Lc -55.8. 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 26.0 and 28.0 and 40.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.35:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.92:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.92:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ab635c 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
#e2958d
protanopia
#a0a08d · ΔE00 26.0
deuteranopia
#b0b08a · ΔE00 28.0
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 40.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalmon Pink Red at ΔE00 0.762: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Salmon Pink RedΔE00 0.762 · #e1958f
- Strawberry RoseΔE00 1.086 · #e29991
- Coral CloudΔE00 1.21 · #dc958d
- Tuscan ImageΔE00 1.217 · #dc938c
- Coral AtollΔE00 1.373 · #dc938d
- Salmon SaltΔE00 1.42 · #e7968b
- Fresh WatermelonΔE00 1.933 · #df9689
- Petite OrchidΔE00 1.948 · #da9790
- Powder BlushΔE00 2 · #d8948b
- She Loves PinkΔE00 2.021 · #e39b96
- Dusty CedarΔE00 2.155 · #dd9592
- Coral AlmondΔE00 2.187 · #e29d94
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.