HueComb

Tulip

#ff878d

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

Hex

#ff878d

RGB

255, 135, 141

OKLCh

75.8% 0.146 18.0°

CIELAB (D50)

70.3, 46.9, 18.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 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 45.1; on black, Lc -57.0. 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 29.1 and 35.6 and 51.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.10:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.10:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c3525b 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

#ff878d

protanopia

#9b9b8e · ΔE00 29.1

deuteranopia

#b5b589 · ΔE00 35.6

tritanopia

#cece00 · ΔE00 51.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCamaron Pink at ΔE00 1.35: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.