HueComb

Lipstick Illusion

#d4696d

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

Hex

#d4696d

RGB

212, 105, 109

OKLCh

64.8% 0.135 19.2°

CIELAB (D50)

57.8, 43.2, 18.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.9; on black, Lc -39.8. 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 28.8 and 34.0 and 47.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.48:1 — large text only

Black text

6.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#be565b 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

#d4696d

protanopia

#7b7b6e · ΔE00 28.8

deuteranopia

#939369 · ΔE00 34.0

tritanopia

#a9a900 · ΔE00 47.3

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 1.785: 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.