HueComb

Desire

#ea3c53

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

Hex

#ea3c53

RGB

234, 60, 83

OKLCh

62.4% 0.209 18.8°

CIELAB (D50)

54.1, 67.1, 29.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.7; on black, Lc -35.9. 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 35.6 and 44.9 and 55.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.99:1 — large text only

Black text

5.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#df304b 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

#ea3c53

protanopia

#666654 · ΔE00 35.6

deuteranopia

#8f8f4a · ΔE00 44.9

tritanopia

#afaf00 · ΔE00 55.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClown Nose at ΔE00 0.892: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.