HueComb

Melondrama

#ee8170

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

Hex

#ee8170

RGB

238, 129, 112

OKLCh

72.0% 0.137 30.1°

CIELAB (D50)

66.3, 41.6, 28.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 50.7; on black, Lc -51.2. 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 30.3 and 34.1 and 43.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.62:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.01:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.01:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bf5748 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

#ee8170

protanopia

#939371 · ΔE00 30.3

deuteranopia

#abab6b · ΔE00 34.1

tritanopia

#c1c100 · ΔE00 43.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoralette at ΔE00 1.211: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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