HueComb

Strawberry Avalanche

#ef4f41

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

Hex

#ef4f41

RGB

239, 79, 65

OKLCh

64.8% 0.199 28.7°

CIELAB (D50)

57.2, 61.7, 44.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.3; on black, Lc -39.4. 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 38.5 and 43.3 and 49.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.58:1 — large text only

Black text

5.86:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.86:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#db3b2f 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

#ef4f41

protanopia

#717143 · ΔE00 38.5

deuteranopia

#979735 · ΔE00 43.3

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 49.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAngry Flamingo at ΔE00 1.159: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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