HueComb

Fuzzy Wuzzy

#cc6666

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

Hex

#cc6666

RGB

204, 102, 102

OKLCh

63.1% 0.130 21.4°

CIELAB (D50)

55.9, 41.3, 19.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 64.2; on black, Lc -37.4. 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 28.8 and 33.2 and 45.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.71:1 — large text only

Black text

5.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bc5858 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

#cc6666

protanopia

#777767 · ΔE00 28.8

deuteranopia

#8e8e62 · ΔE00 33.2

tritanopia

#a3a300 · ΔE00 45.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Wine at ΔE00 1.253: 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.