HueComb

Coral Paradise

#e76682

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

Hex

#e76682

RGB

231, 102, 130

OKLCh

67.6% 0.161 9.0°

CIELAB (D50)

60.5, 52.8, 10.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.2; on black, Lc -43.5. 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 26.6 and 35.6 and 55.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.17:1 — large text only

Black text

6.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c94a69 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

#e76682

protanopia

#7e7e83 · ΔE00 26.6

deuteranopia

#9b9b7e · ΔE00 35.6

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 55.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCherry Brandy at ΔE00 1.396: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.