HueComb

Dark Salmon Injustice

#e8957a

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

Hex

#e8957a

RGB

232, 149, 122

OKLCh

74.8% 0.108 38.8°

CIELAB (D50)

70.0, 30.0, 27.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.8; on black, Lc -56.3. 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 25.9 and 27.9 and 37.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.01:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.01:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b06248 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

#e8957a

protanopia

#a1a17b · ΔE00 25.9

deuteranopia

#b3b377 · ΔE00 27.9

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 37.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKindleflame at ΔE00 0.409: 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.