HueComb

Funki Porcini

#ee9999

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

Hex

#ee9999

RGB

238, 153, 153

OKLCh

76.8% 0.102 19.7°

CIELAB (D50)

72.1, 32.7, 14.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.6; on black, Lc -59.6. 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 26.3 and 29.5 and 45.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.18:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#af6061 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

#ee9999

protanopia

#a6a699 · ΔE00 26.3

deuteranopia

#b7b796 · ΔE00 29.5

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 45.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach Burst at ΔE00 1.047: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.