HueComb

Young Crab

#f6a09d

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

Hex

#f6a09d

RGB

246, 160, 157

OKLCh

79.0% 0.103 21.8°

CIELAB (D50)

74.7, 32.6, 15.5

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 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.9; on black, Lc -63.5. 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 26.6 and 29.5 and 44.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.01:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#af605f 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

#f6a09d

protanopia

#adad9d · ΔE00 26.6

deuteranopia

#bfbf9a · ΔE00 29.5

tritanopia

#d0d000 · ΔE00 44.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Heart Pink at ΔE00 1.004: 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.