HueComb

Angry Flamingo

#f04e45

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

Hex

#f04e45

RGB

240, 78, 69

OKLCh

64.8% 0.200 27.3°

CIELAB (D50)

57.3, 62.5, 41.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.1; on black, Lc -39.6. 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 38.4 and 43.7 and 50.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.57:1 — large text only

Black text

5.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#db3934 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

#f04e45

protanopia

#717147 · ΔE00 38.4

deuteranopia

#97973a · ΔE00 43.7

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 50.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Avalanche 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.