HueComb

Candy

#ff9b87

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

Hex

#ff9b87

RGB

255, 155, 135

OKLCh

78.8% 0.124 32.1°

CIELAB (D50)

74.3, 36.8, 27.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • 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 39.5; on black, Lc -62.9. 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 28.5 and 31.7 and 42.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.04:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b85c4a 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

#ff9b87

protanopia

#aaaa88 · ΔE00 28.5

deuteranopia

#c0c083 · ΔE00 31.7

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 42.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach’s Daydream at ΔE00 0.454: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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