Peachy Feeling
#ed8666
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ed8666
RGB
237, 134, 102
OKLCh
72.5% 0.134 38.0°
CIELAB (D50)
67.1, 38.2, 35.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit 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 49.8; on black, Lc -52.2. 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 29.6 and 32.4 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bc5a3b 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
#ed8666
protanopia
#969667 · ΔE00 29.6
deuteranopia
#adad61 · ΔE00 32.4
tritanopia
#c2c200 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFirewatch at ΔE00 0.749: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- FirewatchΔE00 0.749 · #ee8866
- Morning MarmaladeΔE00 1.304 · #ee8a67
- Mesa SunriseΔE00 1.329 · #ea8160
- Brewed MustardΔE00 1.406 · #e68364
- Akakō RedΔE00 1.767 · #f07f5e
- Roasted SiennaΔE00 1.987 · #ea7e5d
- Orange DaylilyΔE00 2.153 · #eb7d5d
- Painted ClayΔE00 2.322 · #eb8f6f
- Tangerine FlakeΔE00 2.538 · #e57f5b
- Juicy PassionfruitΔE00 2.603 · #f18870
- Moegi GreenΔE00 2.694 · #f19172
- Warm WelcomeΔE00 2.714 · #ea9073
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.