Sassy Salmon
#ee7c54
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee7c54
RGB
238, 124, 84
OKLCh
70.8% 0.151 39.7°
CIELAB (D50)
65.0, 42.6, 42.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.6; on black, Lc -49.3. 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 31.9 and 34.6 and 40.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.75:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c3552d is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ee7c54
protanopia
#8f8f55 · ΔE00 31.9
deuteranopia
#a8a84d · ΔE00 34.6
tritanopia
#bfbf00 · ΔE00 40.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoral Rose at ΔE00 1.422: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Coral RoseΔE00 1.422 · #f3774d
- BonfireΔE00 1.83 · #f78058
- Tangerine FlakeΔE00 1.927 · #e57f5b
- Temple of OrangeΔE00 1.945 · #ee7755
- Roasted SiennaΔE00 1.951 · #ea7e5d
- KoeksisterΔE00 2.074 · #e97551
- Akakō RedΔE00 2.08 · #f07f5e
- Orange DaylilyΔE00 2.15 · #eb7d5d
- Mesa SunriseΔE00 2.225 · #ea8160
- Rich GardeniaΔE00 2.252 · #f57f4f
- Araigaki OrangeΔE00 2.284 · #ec8254
- Ouni RedΔE00 2.286 · #ee7948
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.