Watermelon
#fd4659
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#fd4659
RGB
253, 70, 89
OKLCh
66.5% 0.218 20.0°
CIELAB (D50)
58.8, 69.9, 33.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% 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 60.0; on black, Lc -41.7. 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 37.3 and 46.3 and 56.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.39:1 — large text only
Black text
6.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#e32845 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
#fd4659
protanopia
#71715b · ΔE00 37.3
deuteranopia
#9c9c50 · ΔE00 46.3
tritanopia
#bebe00 · ΔE00 56.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHotter Than Hell at ΔE00 1.003: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hotter Than HellΔE00 1.003 · #ff4455
- Sizzling RedΔE00 1.486 · #ff3855
- Detailed DevilΔE00 2.063 · #ff3355
- Festive FennecΔE00 2.744 · #ff5566
- Cherry Paddle PopΔE00 2.799 · #fe314b
- Reddish PinkΔE00 2.859 · #fe2c54
- Sunburnt CyclopsΔE00 2.899 · #ff404c
- Vineyard AutumnΔE00 2.958 · #ee4455
- Red SalsaΔE00 2.993 · #fd3a4a
- Glorious RedΔE00 3.005 · #fe2f4a
- Sweet WatermelonΔE00 3.231 · #fc5669
- Highlighter RedΔE00 3.232 · #e94f58
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.