HueComb

Coral Commander

#ee6666

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

Hex

#ee6666

RGB

238, 102, 102

OKLCh

67.9% 0.169 22.6°

CIELAB (D50)

61.1, 53.5, 27.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.5; on black, Lc -44.2. 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 33.1 and 39.5 and 50.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.12:1 — large text only

Black text

6.73:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.73:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ce494c 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

#ee6666

protanopia

#7f7f67 · ΔE00 33.1

deuteranopia

#9e9e60 · ΔE00 39.5

tritanopia

#baba00 · ΔE00 50.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFirecracker Salmon at ΔE00 1.027: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.