HueComb

Salmon Poké Bowl

#ee7777

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

Hex

#ee7777

RGB

238, 119, 119

OKLCh

70.7% 0.147 21.5°

CIELAB (D50)

64.5, 46.8, 22.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.2; on black, Lc -48.7. 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 30.4 and 36.1 and 48.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.78:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.54:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.54:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c45154 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

#ee7777

protanopia

#8b8b78 · ΔE00 30.4

deuteranopia

#a6a672 · ΔE00 36.1

tritanopia

#bebe00 · ΔE00 48.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Chalk at ΔE00 0.177: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.