HueComb

Lox

#ec9079

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

Hex

#ec9079

RGB

236, 144, 121

OKLCh

74.4% 0.117 34.8°

CIELAB (D50)

69.3, 34.0, 27.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.6; on black, Lc -55.4. 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 27.5 and 30.1 and 39.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.38:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.83:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.83:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b55e49 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

#ec9079

protanopia

#9e9e7a · ΔE00 27.5

deuteranopia

#b2b275 · ΔE00 30.1

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 39.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoodle Skirt Peach at ΔE00 0.788: 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.