HueComb

Peaches of Immortality

#d98586

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

Hex

#d98586

RGB

217, 133, 134

OKLCh

70.5% 0.104 19.2°

CIELAB (D50)

64.7, 33.2, 13.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.9; on black, Lc -49.0. 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 26.3 and 29.6 and 44.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.75:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#af6062 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

#d98586

protanopia

#929286 · ΔE00 26.3

deuteranopia

#a4a483 · ΔE00 29.6

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 44.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFinest Blush at ΔE00 1.055: 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.