HueComb

Smoked Salmon

#fa8072

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

Hex

#fa8072

RGB

250, 128, 114

OKLCh

73.5% 0.151 28.1°

CIELAB (D50)

67.8, 46.6, 30.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 93% 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 48.6; on black, Lc -53.3. 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 32.0 and 36.7 and 46.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c65146 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

#fa8072

protanopia

#959573 · ΔE00 32.0

deuteranopia

#b0b06d · ΔE00 36.7

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 46.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHipster Salmon at ΔE00 0.969: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.