Jinza Safflower
#ee827c
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee827c
RGB
238, 130, 124
OKLCh
72.4% 0.134 24.2°
CIELAB (D50)
66.7, 41.9, 22.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.2; on black, Lc -51.7. 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 29.4 and 33.9 and 46.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#be5753 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
#ee827c
protanopia
#94947d · ΔE00 29.4
deuteranopia
#abab78 · ΔE00 33.9
tritanopia
#c1c100 · ΔE00 46.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalmon Carpaccio at ΔE00 1.196: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Salmon CarpaccioΔE00 1.196 · #ee867d
- MeatΔE00 1.815 · #f08080
- Tango PinkΔE00 1.942 · #e47f7a
- GeraldineΔE00 2.055 · #e77b75
- Shell PinkΔE00 2.081 · #f88180
- Coral PinkΔE00 2.243 · #f88379
- Lively CoralΔE00 2.299 · #e67c7a
- Cultured RoseΔE00 2.3 · #e5867b
- Sweet MelonΔE00 2.37 · #e87973
- Youthful CoralΔE00 2.376 · #ee8073
- Congo PinkΔE00 2.386 · #f98379
- Sugar PoppyΔE00 2.506 · #e58281
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.