HueComb

Flattered Flamingo

#ee6655

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

Hex

#ee6655

RGB

238, 102, 85

OKLCh

67.6% 0.172 29.5°

CIELAB (D50)

60.9, 52.7, 37.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.9; on black, Lc -43.9. 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 34.9 and 39.6 and 46.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.15:1 — large text only

Black text

6.67:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.67:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cf493b 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

#ee6655

protanopia

#7f7f56 · ΔE00 34.9

deuteranopia

#9e9e4d · ΔE00 39.6

tritanopia

#baba00 · ΔE00 46.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isConnect Red at ΔE00 1.19: 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.