HueComb

Old Heart

#e66a77

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

Hex

#e66a77

RGB

230, 106, 119

OKLCh

67.7% 0.154 15.7°

CIELAB (D50)

60.8, 49.9, 17.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.9; on black, Lc -43.9. 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 28.9 and 36.5 and 51.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.14:1 — large text only

Black text

6.69:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.69:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c74e5d 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

#e66a77

protanopia

#808078 · ΔE00 28.9

deuteranopia

#9c9c73 · ΔE00 36.5

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 51.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSun-Kissed Coral at ΔE00 0.863: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.