Slippery Salmon
#f87e63
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f87e63
RGB
248, 126, 99
OKLCh
72.7% 0.155 33.7°
CIELAB (D50)
67.0, 46.0, 37.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% 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 49.9; on black, Lc -52.1. 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 32.8 and 36.5 and 43.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.16:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.16:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c75238 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
#f87e63
protanopia
#939364 · ΔE00 32.8
deuteranopia
#aeae5d · ΔE00 36.5
tritanopia
#c7c700 · ΔE00 43.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAkebono Dawn at ΔE00 0.853: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Akebono DawnΔE00 0.853 · #fa7b62
- Sunset PapayaΔE00 0.885 · #fc7d64
- Peachy PinkyΔE00 1.801 · #ff775e
- Adventure Island PinkΔE00 1.961 · #f87858
- Akakō RedΔE00 2.267 · #f07f5e
- Fresh SalmonΔE00 2.548 · #ff7356
- Fruit RedΔE00 2.577 · #fa8970
- MelonΔE00 2.707 · #ff7855
- Juicy PassionfruitΔE00 2.748 · #f18870
- Peach EchoΔE00 2.764 · #f6725c
- Orange DaylilyΔE00 2.796 · #eb7d5d
- Protein HighΔE00 2.997 · #ff8866
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.