HueComb

Mad Pinker

#ff9899

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

Hex

#ff9899

RGB

255, 152, 153

OKLCh

78.7% 0.124 19.6°

CIELAB (D50)

74.0, 39.6, 17.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 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 39.9; on black, Lc -62.5. 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 27.9 and 32.3 and 48.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.06:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.20:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.20:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b9595d 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

#ff9899

protanopia

#a8a89a · ΔE00 27.9

deuteranopia

#bebe96 · ΔE00 32.3

tritanopia

#d3d300 · ΔE00 48.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRubber Radish at ΔE00 0.348: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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