HueComb

Pastel Red

#ff6961

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

Hex

#ff6961

RGB

255, 105, 97

OKLCh

70.7% 0.185 25.9°

CIELAB (D50)

64.2, 57.8, 35.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 53.4; on black, Lc -48.5. 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 35.9 and 41.9 and 50.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.82:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d5423e 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

#ff6961

protanopia

#868662 · ΔE00 35.9

deuteranopia

#a8a859 · ΔE00 41.9

tritanopia

#c6c600 · ΔE00 50.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPineapple Salmon at ΔE00 1.143: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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