HueComb

Amour

#ee5851

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

Hex

#ee5851

RGB

238, 88, 81

OKLCh

65.8% 0.186 26.2°

CIELAB (D50)

58.5, 58.4, 36.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.7; on black, Lc -41.0. 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 36.4 and 42.0 and 49.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.41:1 — large text only

Black text

6.15:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.15:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d6413d 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

#ee5851

protanopia

#767652 · ΔE00 36.4

deuteranopia

#999948 · ΔE00 42.0

tritanopia

#b7b700 · ΔE00 49.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Coral at ΔE00 1.214: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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