In for a Penny
#ee8877
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee8877
RGB
238, 136, 119
OKLCh
73.3% 0.128 30.4°
CIELAB (D50)
67.9, 38.6, 27.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.6; on black, Lc -53.3. 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 29.1 and 32.6 and 42.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.49:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bb5a4b 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
#ee8877
protanopia
#989878 · ΔE00 29.1
deuteranopia
#aeae73 · ΔE00 32.6
tritanopia
#c3c300 · ΔE00 42.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoralette at ΔE00 0.711: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CoraletteΔE00 0.711 · #f08674
- RedolencΔE00 0.98 · #ea8a7a
- CorralizeΔE00 1.114 · #f18a76
- ThundelarraΔE00 1.572 · #e88a76
- MelondramaΔE00 1.657 · #ee8170
- Animated CoralΔE00 2.039 · #ed9080
- Youthful CoralΔE00 2.111 · #ee8073
- Coral PassionΔE00 2.179 · #f39081
- Juicy PassionfruitΔE00 2.214 · #f18870
- Peach PoseyΔE00 2.239 · #e38372
- Sierra PinkΔE00 2.283 · #ed9181
- Hot CalypsoΔE00 2.297 · #fa8d7c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.