HueComb

Salmon

#ff796c

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

Hex

#ff796c

RGB

255, 121, 108

OKLCh

73.1% 0.166 27.5°

CIELAB (D50)

67.2, 51.4, 32.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 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 49.5; on black, Lc -52.4. 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 33.8 and 39.0 and 48.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.20:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.20:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cc4b42 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

#ff796c

protanopia

#91916d · ΔE00 33.8

deuteranopia

#afaf66 · ΔE00 39.0

tritanopia

#caca00 · ΔE00 48.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHipster Salmon at ΔE00 0.657: 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.