HueComb

Sweet Pimento

#fe6346

A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#fe6346

RGB

254, 99, 70

OKLCh

69.5% 0.195 32.6°

CIELAB (D50)

62.8, 59.0, 48.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 55.3; on black, Lc -46.5. 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 38.1 and 42.2 and 47.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.96:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.09:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.09:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d83f23 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

#fe6346

protanopia

#828248 · ΔE00 38.1

deuteranopia

#a5a53a · ΔE00 42.2

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 47.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBruschetta Tomato at ΔE00 0.287: 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.