Peachy Pinky

#ff775e

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

Hex

#ff775e

RGB

255, 119, 94

OKLCh

72.5% 0.171 32.1°

CIELAB (D50)

66.6, 51.6, 39.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 50.3; on black, Lc -51.7. 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 35.0 and 39.2 and 46.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.61:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ce4a34 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

#ff775e

protanopia

#8f8f5f · ΔE00 35.0

deuteranopia

#aeae56 · ΔE00 39.2

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 46.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAkebono Dawn at ΔE00 1.097: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Akebono DawnΔE00 1.097 · #fa7b62
  • Sunset PapayaΔE00 1.283 · #fc7d64
  • Fresh SalmonΔE00 1.435 · #ff7356
  • Slippery SalmonΔE00 1.801 · #f87e63
  • Peach EchoΔE00 2.039 · #f6725c
  • Orange PinkΔE00 2.065 · #ff6f52
  • Adventure Island PinkΔE00 2.203 · #f87858
  • Blistering MarsΔE00 2.342 · #ff6c51
  • Grapefruit PulpΔE00 2.383 · #fe6f5e
  • Living CoralΔE00 2.515 · #ff6a52
  • MelonΔE00 2.579 · #ff7855
  • Often OrangeΔE00 2.996 · #ff714e

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