Flirty Salmon

#fa7069

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

Hex

#fa7069

RGB

250, 112, 105

OKLCh

71.1% 0.171 25.3°

CIELAB (D50)

64.8, 53.5, 31.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 94% 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 52.8; on black, Lc -49.1. 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 34.0 and 39.8 and 49.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.77:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cf4845 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

#fa7069

protanopia

#89896a · ΔE00 34.0

deuteranopia

#a9a963 · ΔE00 39.8

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 49.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRosé at ΔE00 0.878: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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