Nude Flamingo
#e58f7c
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e58f7c
RGB
229, 143, 124
OKLCh
73.4% 0.109 33.2°
CIELAB (D50)
68.3, 32.0, 24.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.1; on black, Lc -53.9. 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 26.7 and 29.0 and 39.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b1604f 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
#e58f7c
protanopia
#9c9c7d · ΔE00 26.7
deuteranopia
#aeae79 · ΔE00 29.0
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 39.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isApricot Red at ΔE00 0.728: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Apricot RedΔE00 0.728 · #e8917d
- ThundelarraΔE00 1.521 · #e88a76
- Ravishing CoralΔE00 1.644 · #e79580
- LoxΔE00 1.73 · #ec9079
- Animated CoralΔE00 1.825 · #ed9080
- Sierra PinkΔE00 1.846 · #ed9181
- Presidio PeachΔE00 1.853 · #ec9580
- Poodle Skirt PeachΔE00 1.869 · #ea927a
- RedolencΔE00 1.95 · #ea8a7a
- Love SceptreΔE00 2.194 · #dd8877
- Guava JellyΔE00 2.323 · #ee9685
- Guava JamΔE00 2.393 · #e08771
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.