HueComb

Opal Flame

#e95c4b

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

Hex

#e95c4b

RGB

233, 92, 75

OKLCh

65.5% 0.178 29.6°

CIELAB (D50)

58.3, 54.9, 39.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.1; on black, Lc -40.6. 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 35.9 and 40.5 and 47.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.44:1 — large text only

Black text

6.10:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.10:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d24637 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

#e95c4b

protanopia

#78784c · ΔE00 35.9

deuteranopia

#989842 · ΔE00 40.5

tritanopia

#b4b400 · ΔE00 47.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlamingo at ΔE00 1.738: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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