HueComb

Her Majesty

#f9a4a4

A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f9a4a4

RGB

249, 164, 164

OKLCh

80.2% 0.101 19.5°

CIELAB (D50)

76.0, 32.3, 13.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 90% 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 36.8; on black, Lc -65.6. 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 26.2 and 29.4 and 45.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.93:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.87:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.87:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ae6062 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

#f9a4a4

protanopia

#b0b0a4 · ΔE00 26.2

deuteranopia

#c2c2a1 · ΔE00 29.4

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 45.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Heart Pink at ΔE00 0.818: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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