Happy Hearts
#d46362
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d46362
RGB
212, 99, 98
OKLCh
63.7% 0.143 22.5°
CIELAB (D50)
56.4, 45.4, 23.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.5; on black, Lc -38.2. 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 30.3 and 35.4 and 46.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.65:1 — large text only
Black text
5.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c25353 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d46362
protanopia
#777763 · ΔE00 30.3
deuteranopia
#90905d · ΔE00 35.4
tritanopia
#a7a700 · ΔE00 46.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Geranium at ΔE00 1.66: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Red GeraniumΔE00 1.66 · #d76968
- LippieΔE00 1.729 · #d16a68
- Fuzzy WuzzyΔE00 1.855 · #cc6666
- Coral ExpressionΔE00 1.897 · #d76a69
- RomanΔE00 2.272 · #d8625b
- Common ChestnutΔE00 2.361 · #cd5c5c
- Salami SliceΔE00 2.363 · #da655e
- Tory RedΔE00 2.591 · #d6685f
- BriquetteΔE00 2.613 · #e15f65
- Lipstick IllusionΔE00 2.621 · #d4696d
- Native BerryΔE00 2.658 · #dc6b67
- PinkadelicΔE00 2.684 · #cb5c5b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.