HueComb

Stormy Passion

#c36666

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

Hex

#c36666

RGB

195, 102, 102

OKLCh

61.9% 0.119 21.1°

CIELAB (D50)

54.5, 37.9, 17.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.9; on black, Lc -35.8. 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 31.6 and 43.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.88:1 — large text only

Black text

5.41:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.41:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b75b5c 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

#c36666

protanopia

#757567 · ΔE00 27.9

deuteranopia

#8a8a63 · ΔE00 31.6

tritanopia

#9d9d00 · ΔE00 43.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFaded Rose at ΔE00 1.027: 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.