HueComb

Young Salmon

#ffb6b4

A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#ffb6b4

RGB

255, 182, 180

OKLCh

84.4% 0.085 20.8°

CIELAB (D50)

81.0, 27.1, 12.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 29.2; on black, Lc -73.7. 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 24.6 and 27.6 and 43.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.67:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.60:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.60:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a66564 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

#ffb6b4

protanopia

#c0c0b4 · ΔE00 24.6

deuteranopia

#cfcfb2 · ΔE00 27.6

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 43.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWildflower Bouquet at ΔE00 0.768: 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.