Kissable
#fd8f79
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#fd8f79
RGB
253, 143, 121
OKLCh
76.3% 0.138 32.3°
CIELAB (D50)
71.4, 41.0, 30.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 97% 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 43.8; on black, Lc -58.4. 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 30.4 and 34.0 and 43.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bf5744 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
#fd8f79
protanopia
#a1a17a · ΔE00 30.4
deuteranopia
#b8b874 · ΔE00 34.0
tritanopia
#cfcf00 · ΔE00 43.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoralistic at ΔE00 0.59: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- CoralisticΔE00 0.59 · #ff917a
- Miami CoralΔE00 1.342 · #fd8973
- Hot CalypsoΔE00 1.605 · #fa8d7c
- Fruit RedΔE00 1.74 · #fa8970
- Orange AuraΔE00 1.751 · #ff9682
- AlexandriaΔE00 1.774 · #ff8f73
- Play ’til DawnΔE00 2.064 · #ff8877
- CorralizeΔE00 2.305 · #f18a76
- Parma HamΔE00 2.386 · #f89882
- Vivid TangerineΔE00 2.402 · #ff9980
- Juicy PassionfruitΔE00 2.645 · #f18870
- Shān Hú Hóng CoralΔE00 2.715 · #fa9a85
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.