HueComb

Barbecue

#c26157

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

Hex

#c26157

RGB

194, 97, 87

OKLCh

60.6% 0.126 27.5°

CIELAB (D50)

53.1, 39.0, 24.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.6; on black, Lc -34.1. 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 29.0 and 32.5 and 41.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.08:1 — large text only

Black text

5.14:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.14:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ba5a50 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

#c26157

protanopia

#727258 · ΔE00 29.0

deuteranopia

#878753 · ΔE00 32.5

tritanopia

#9b9b00 · ΔE00 41.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSunglo at ΔE00 1.272: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.