HueComb

Watermelonade

#eb4652

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

Hex

#eb4652

RGB

235, 70, 82

OKLCh

63.4% 0.201 21.2°

CIELAB (D50)

55.5, 64.2, 32.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.3; on black, Lc -37.4. 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 36.3 and 44.1 and 53.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.80:1 — large text only

Black text

5.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#dc3646 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

#eb4652

protanopia

#6b6b53 · ΔE00 36.3

deuteranopia

#929249 · ΔE00 44.1

tritanopia

#b1b100 · ΔE00 53.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVineyard Autumn at ΔE00 1.015: 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.