HueComb

Aphrodisiac

#e35a63

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

Hex

#e35a63

RGB

227, 90, 99

OKLCh

64.7% 0.171 19.3°

CIELAB (D50)

57.2, 54.7, 24.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.3; on black, Lc -39.4. 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 32.1 and 39.5 and 51.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.55:1 — large text only

Black text

5.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cf4752 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

#e35a63

protanopia

#757564 · ΔE00 32.1

deuteranopia

#94945d · ΔE00 39.5

tritanopia

#afaf00 · ΔE00 51.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBriquette at ΔE00 0.965: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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