HueComb

Pink Pepper

#ef586c

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

Hex

#ef586c

RGB

239, 88, 108

OKLCh

66.5% 0.185 15.9°

CIELAB (D50)

59.1, 60.0, 21.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.9; on black, Lc -41.8. 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 31.5 and 41.2 and 55.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.34:1 — large text only

Black text

6.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d53f57 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

#ef586c

protanopia

#77776d · ΔE00 31.5

deuteranopia

#9a9a66 · ΔE00 41.2

tritanopia

#b7b700 · ΔE00 55.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRipe Malinka at ΔE00 1.048: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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