Royal Blush
#f26e54
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f26e54
RGB
242, 110, 84
OKLCh
69.3% 0.168 32.8°
CIELAB (D50)
62.9, 50.6, 40.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.3; on black, Lc -46.5. 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 34.7 and 38.6 and 45.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.94:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#cd4c34 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f26e54
protanopia
#868655 · ΔE00 34.7
deuteranopia
#a4a44c · ΔE00 38.6
tritanopia
#bebe00 · ΔE00 45.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEntan Red at ΔE00 1.251: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Entan RedΔE00 1.251 · #ec6d51
- Sango RedΔE00 1.524 · #f8674f
- Peach EchoΔE00 1.704 · #f6725c
- Living CoralΔE00 2.17 · #ff6a52
- Blistering MarsΔE00 2.172 · #ff6c51
- Autumn EnchantmentΔE00 2.21 · #ea6f5b
- Rose FusionΔE00 2.211 · #f96653
- Orange PinkΔE00 2.356 · #ff6f52
- OrangevilleΔE00 2.427 · #e57059
- Connect RedΔE00 2.466 · #eb6651
- Fresh SalmonΔE00 2.636 · #ff7356
- Adventure Island PinkΔE00 2.753 · #f87858
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.