HueComb

Cosy Summer Sunset

#eb9f9f

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

Hex

#eb9f9f

RGB

235, 159, 159

OKLCh

77.7% 0.091 19.3°

CIELAB (D50)

73.2, 29.1, 12.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.0; on black, Lc -61.3. 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 25.1 and 28.3 and 43.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.10:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a96364 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

#eb9f9f

protanopia

#aaaa9f · ΔE00 25.1

deuteranopia

#baba9d · ΔE00 28.3

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 43.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRiver Rouge at ΔE00 1.193: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.