HueComb

Infrared

#fe486c

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

Hex

#fe486c

RGB

254, 72, 108

OKLCh

67.2% 0.217 14.1°

CIELAB (D50)

59.5, 70.3, 23.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.1; on black, Lc -42.7. 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 32.1 and 45.0 and 59.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.30:1 — large text only

Black text

6.36:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.36:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e22856 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

#fe486c

protanopia

#72726d · ΔE00 32.1

deuteranopia

#9d9d65 · ΔE00 45.0

tritanopia

#bfbf00 · ΔE00 59.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLove Red at ΔE00 0.331: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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