HueComb

Pink Porky

#ee9091

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

Hex

#ee9091

RGB

238, 144, 145

OKLCh

75.1% 0.114 19.4°

CIELAB (D50)

70.0, 36.5, 15.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.6; on black, Lc -56.5. 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 27.2 and 31.0 and 46.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b55c5f 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

#ee9091

protanopia

#9e9e92 · ΔE00 27.2

deuteranopia

#b2b28e · ΔE00 31.0

tritanopia

#c6c600 · ΔE00 46.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIkkonzome Pink at ΔE00 0.478: 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.