HueComb

Cherry Paddle Pop

#fe314b

A red that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#fe314b

RGB

254, 49, 75

OKLCh

64.9% 0.235 21.1°

CIELAB (D50)

56.8, 75.4, 38.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.2; on black, Lc -39.5. 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 39.9 and 48.5 and 56.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.65:1 — large text only

Black text

5.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#eb103c 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

#fe314b

protanopia

#68684d · ΔE00 39.9

deuteranopia

#98983e · ΔE00 48.5

tritanopia

#bcbc00 · ΔE00 56.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlorious Red at ΔE00 0.208: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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