HueComb

Sun-Kissed Coral

#ea6777

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

Hex

#ea6777

RGB

234, 103, 119

OKLCh

67.8% 0.162 15.0°

CIELAB (D50)

60.9, 52.7, 17.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.7; on black, Lc -44.0. 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 29.1 and 37.6 and 53.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.13:1 — large text only

Black text

6.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ca4a5d 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

#ea6777

protanopia

#7f7f78 · ΔE00 29.1

deuteranopia

#9d9d72 · ΔE00 37.6

tritanopia

#b7b700 · ΔE00 53.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOld Heart at ΔE00 0.863: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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