HueComb

Hipster Salmon

#fd7c6e

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

Hex

#fd7c6e

RGB

253, 124, 110

OKLCh

73.3% 0.160 27.9°

CIELAB (D50)

67.5, 49.4, 32.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 97% 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 49.1; on black, Lc -52.8. 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 33.1 and 38.0 and 47.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.53:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ca4e43 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

#fd7c6e

protanopia

#92926f · ΔE00 33.1

deuteranopia

#afaf68 · ΔE00 38.0

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 47.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalmon at ΔE00 0.657: 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.