HueComb

Frozen Salmon

#fea993

A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fea993

RGB

254, 169, 147

OKLCh

81.3% 0.106 35.2°

CIELAB (D50)

77.4, 30.4, 24.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • 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 34.8; on black, Lc -67.7. 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 26.1 and 28.2 and 39.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.86:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#af614e 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

#fea993

protanopia

#b5b594 · ΔE00 26.1

deuteranopia

#c7c790 · ΔE00 28.2

tritanopia

#d8d800 · ΔE00 39.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNo Way Rosé at ΔE00 0.727: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • No Way RoséΔE00 0.727 · #fbaa95
  • Pink PersimmonΔE00 0.947 · #ffad97
  • Discreet OrangeΔE00 0.997 · #ffad98
  • Coral SerenadeΔE00 1.283 · #f9a48e
  • Peach NectarΔE00 1.388 · #ffae96
  • Duchess RoseΔE00 1.638 · #f7aa97
  • Citrus HillΔE00 1.696 · #f9a78d
  • Honey Baked HamΔE00 1.699 · #ffaa99
  • Pretty PrimroseΔE00 1.706 · #f5a994
  • Pink Rose BudΔE00 1.73 · #feab9a
  • Au ContraireΔE00 1.832 · #f6a694
  • Buttery SalmonΔE00 1.997 · #ffb19a

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