HueComb

Redolenc

#ea8a7a

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

Hex

#ea8a7a

RGB

234, 138, 122

OKLCh

73.2% 0.120 30.3°

CIELAB (D50)

67.8, 36.3, 25.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.7; on black, Lc -53.3. 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 28.2 and 31.3 and 42.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.41:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.41:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b75c4e 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

#ea8a7a

protanopia

#99997b · ΔE00 28.2

deuteranopia

#aeae76 · ΔE00 31.3

tritanopia

#c1c100 · ΔE00 42.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIn for a Penny at ΔE00 0.98: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.