HueComb

Firewatch

#ee8866

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

Hex

#ee8866

RGB

238, 136, 102

OKLCh

73.0% 0.134 39.1°

CIELAB (D50)

67.6, 37.6, 36.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 49.0; on black, Lc -53.0. 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 29.4 and 32.1 and 39.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.52:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bb5b3a 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

#ee8866

protanopia

#989867 · ΔE00 29.4

deuteranopia

#aeae61 · ΔE00 32.1

tritanopia

#c3c300 · ΔE00 39.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMorning Marmalade at ΔE00 0.581: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.