HueComb

Salmon Nigiri

#f9906f

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

Hex

#f9906f

RGB

249, 144, 111

OKLCh

75.8% 0.136 38.2°

CIELAB (D50)

70.9, 38.4, 35.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 44.4; on black, Lc -57.7. 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 29.8 and 32.6 and 40.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.27:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.25:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.25:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bd5a3a 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

#f9906f

protanopia

#a1a170 · ΔE00 29.8

deuteranopia

#b7b76a · ΔE00 32.6

tritanopia

#cdcd00 · ΔE00 40.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalmon Orange at ΔE00 1.481: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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