HueComb

Furious Piñata

#e34d41

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

Hex

#e34d41

RGB

227, 77, 65

OKLCh

62.6% 0.188 28.3°

CIELAB (D50)

54.8, 58.5, 40.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 73% 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 37.1 and 42.0 and 48.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.89:1 — large text only

Black text

5.40:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.40:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d64136 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

#e34d41

protanopia

#6d6d43 · ΔE00 37.1

deuteranopia

#909036 · ΔE00 42.0

tritanopia

#adad00 · ΔE00 48.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlossoming Dynasty at ΔE00 1.2: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.