Parma Ham
#f89882
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f89882
RGB
248, 152, 130
OKLCh
77.3% 0.120 33.7°
CIELAB (D50)
72.7, 35.3, 27.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 41.8; on black, Lc -60.4. 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 28.0 and 30.9 and 41.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b75d49 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
#f89882
protanopia
#a7a783 · ΔE00 28.0
deuteranopia
#bbbb7e · ΔE00 30.9
tritanopia
#cfcf00 · ΔE00 41.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShān Hú Hóng Coral at ΔE00 0.643: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Shān Hú Hóng CoralΔE00 0.643 · #fa9a85
- Pouring CopperΔE00 1.184 · #fb9b82
- Vivid TangerineΔE00 1.433 · #ff9980
- Peach’s DaydreamΔE00 1.456 · #fd9b88
- CandyΔE00 1.49 · #ff9b87
- Orange AuraΔE00 1.546 · #ff9682
- Rose EssenceΔE00 1.889 · #f29b89
- Peachy SalmonΔE00 1.891 · #ff9b80
- Tangerine CreamΔE00 2.031 · #ffa089
- Amber SunΔE00 2.057 · #ff9988
- Presidio PeachΔE00 2.142 · #ec9580
- Chilly SpiceΔE00 2.157 · #fd9989
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.