Forbidden Fruit
#fe7b7c
A red that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#fe7b7c
RGB
254, 123, 124
OKLCh
73.5% 0.160 21.3°
CIELAB (D50)
67.6, 51.0, 24.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 48.9; on black, Lc -53.1. 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 31.6 and 38.1 and 50.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.52:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.34:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.34:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ca4c51 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
#fe7b7c
protanopia
#92927d · ΔE00 31.6
deuteranopia
#afaf77 · ΔE00 38.1
tritanopia
#caca00 · ΔE00 50.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Red at ΔE00 0.845: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Light RedΔE00 0.845 · #ff7f7f
- EmbarrassmentΔE00 1.032 · #ff7777
- Shell PinkΔE00 1.515 · #f88180
- Salmon SashimiΔE00 1.725 · #ff7e79
- Strawberry FieldΔE00 1.793 · #fa8383
- Anime BlushΔE00 2.256 · #ff7a83
- Georgia PeachΔE00 2.263 · #f97272
- MeatΔE00 2.569 · #f08080
- Salmon RoseΔE00 2.643 · #ff737e
- Red MullΔE00 2.781 · #ff8888
- Salmon Poké BowlΔE00 2.904 · #ee7777
- You’re BlushingΔE00 2.916 · #ee7776
3 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.