HueComb

Pastrami

#e87175

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

Hex

#e87175

RGB

232, 113, 117

OKLCh

68.9% 0.148 19.7°

CIELAB (D50)

62.4, 47.3, 20.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 55.9; on black, Lc -45.9. 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 29.9 and 36.0 and 49.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.98:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c45157 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

#e87175

protanopia

#868676 · ΔE00 29.9

deuteranopia

#a0a070 · ΔE00 36.0

tritanopia

#b8b800 · ΔE00 49.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZahri Pink at ΔE00 1.157: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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