HueComb

Blossoming Dynasty

#de5346

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

Hex

#de5346

RGB

222, 83, 70

OKLCh

62.6% 0.176 28.5°

CIELAB (D50)

54.9, 54.7, 37.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.2; on black, Lc -36.4. 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 35.6 and 40.3 and 47.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.87:1 — large text only

Black text

5.43:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.43:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d1473b 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

#de5346

protanopia

#6f6f47 · ΔE00 35.6

deuteranopia

#8f8f3d · ΔE00 40.3

tritanopia

#aaaa00 · ΔE00 47.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoral Burst at ΔE00 0.985: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.