HueComb

Light Red

#ff7f7f

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

Hex

#ff7f7f

RGB

255, 127, 127

OKLCh

74.3% 0.156 21.6°

CIELAB (D50)

68.6, 49.7, 24.1

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 47.6; on black, Lc -54.4. 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 31.3 and 37.5 and 50.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c84e51 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

#ff7f7f

protanopia

#959580 · ΔE00 31.3

deuteranopia

#b2b27a · ΔE00 37.5

tritanopia

#cccc00 · ΔE00 50.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForbidden Fruit at ΔE00 0.845: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.