Kindleflame
#e9967a
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e9967a
RGB
233, 150, 122
OKLCh
75.1% 0.108 39.4°
CIELAB (D50)
70.3, 29.9, 28.4
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 45.3; on black, Lc -56.8. 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 25.8 and 27.8 and 36.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.11:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.11:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b06247 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e9967a
protanopia
#a2a27b · ΔE00 25.8
deuteranopia
#b4b477 · ΔE00 27.8
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 36.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Salmon Injustice at ΔE00 0.409: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dark Salmon InjusticeΔE00 0.409 · #e8957a
- Warm WelcomeΔE00 1.624 · #ea9073
- Cumquat CreamΔE00 1.739 · #f19b7d
- Poodle Skirt PeachΔE00 1.766 · #ea927a
- SockeyeΔE00 1.787 · #e49780
- Pochard Duck HeadΔE00 2 · #ee9977
- Middle RedΔE00 2.066 · #e58e73
- Painted ClayΔE00 2.18 · #eb8f6f
- Indian DanceΔE00 2.233 · #f49476
- Moegi GreenΔE00 2.241 · #f19172
- Ravishing CoralΔE00 2.268 · #e79580
- Presidio PeachΔE00 2.477 · #ec9580
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.