HueComb

Heirloom Blush

#e3664c

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

Hex

#e3664c

RGB

227, 102, 76

OKLCh

65.9% 0.162 33.3°

CIELAB (D50)

59.0, 48.4, 39.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.3; on black, Lc -41.4. 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 33.8 and 37.5 and 43.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.35:1 — large text only

Black text

6.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ca4f36 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

#e3664c

protanopia

#7d7d4d · ΔE00 33.8

deuteranopia

#999944 · ΔE00 37.5

tritanopia

#b2b200 · ΔE00 43.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoral Orange at ΔE00 1.002: 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.