HueComb

Redstone

#e46b71

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

Hex

#e46b71

RGB

228, 107, 113

OKLCh

67.4% 0.151 19.0°

CIELAB (D50)

60.6, 48.4, 20.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 58.2; on black, Lc -43.5. 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 30.0 and 36.4 and 49.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.16:1 — large text only

Black text

6.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c65058 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

#e46b71

protanopia

#818172 · ΔE00 30.0

deuteranopia

#9c9c6c · ΔE00 36.4

tritanopia

#b4b400 · ΔE00 49.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFroly at ΔE00 0.922: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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