HueComb

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#ea9073

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

Hex

#ea9073

RGB

234, 144, 115

OKLCh

74.0% 0.117 38.6°

CIELAB (D50)

69.0, 32.8, 30.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 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 47.1; on black, Lc -54.9. 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 27.1 and 29.5 and 37.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.40:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b45f44 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

#ea9073

protanopia

#9e9e74 · ΔE00 27.1

deuteranopia

#b1b16f · ΔE00 29.5

tritanopia

#c3c300 · ΔE00 37.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

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

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