HueComb

Meat

#f08080

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

Hex

#f08080

RGB

240, 128, 128

OKLCh

72.5% 0.138 21.0°

CIELAB (D50)

66.7, 43.8, 20.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 81% 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 29.3 and 34.5 and 48.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.10:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c05557 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

#f08080

protanopia

#929281 · ΔE00 29.3

deuteranopia

#abab7c · ΔE00 34.5

tritanopia

#c2c200 · ΔE00 48.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShell Pink at ΔE00 1.487: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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