Calabrese
#f4a6a3
A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f4a6a3
RGB
244, 166, 163
OKLCh
80.0% 0.093 21.8°
CIELAB (D50)
75.9, 29.4, 13.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.1; on black, Lc -65.4. 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 25.7 and 28.3 and 43.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.94:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.83:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.83:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#aa6361 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
#f4a6a3
protanopia
#b1b1a3 · ΔE00 25.7
deuteranopia
#c1c1a1 · ΔE00 28.3
tritanopia
#d1d100 · ΔE00 43.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoseberry at ΔE00 0.714: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- RoseberryΔE00 0.714 · #f4a6a1
- Pouty PinkΔE00 0.888 · #f9a7a4
- Candy Heart PinkΔE00 1.19 · #f5a2a1
- Her MajestyΔE00 1.443 · #f9a4a4
- Faint of HeartΔE00 1.493 · #f1aaa8
- Young CrabΔE00 1.684 · #f6a09d
- Candlelight PeachΔE00 1.746 · #f8a39d
- Plum BlossomΔE00 1.862 · #f2a0a1
- Upstream SalmonΔE00 1.929 · #ffa8a6
- Pink EraserΔE00 1.944 · #f3a09a
- Pink DreamΔE00 1.947 · #fea5a2
- Pressed RoseΔE00 1.981 · #efaba6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.