Dusty Duchess
#b18377
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b18377
RGB
177, 131, 119
OKLCh
65.2% 0.060 35.1°
CIELAB (D50)
59.1, 17.0, 13.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 26% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.2; on black, Lc -41.5. 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 20.8 and 22.2 and 31.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.29:1 — large text only
Black text
6.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#996c61 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b18377
protanopia
#898977 · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#929276 · ΔE00 22.2
tritanopia
#9c9c00 · ΔE00 31.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSauvignon Blanc at ΔE00 0.366: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sauvignon BlancΔE00 0.366 · #b18276
- Smoke Bush RoseΔE00 1.23 · #ad8177
- Brandy RoseΔE00 1.333 · #b6857a
- Crushed ClayΔE00 1.563 · #ae7f71
- Pink EarthΔE00 1.689 · #b08272
- Canyon EarthΔE00 1.873 · #b18575
- Cappuccino BombeΔE00 1.933 · #b4897d
- Hickory BranchΔE00 1.943 · #ab8274
- Brick FenceΔE00 2.002 · #b38070
- Dusky DamaskΔE00 2.004 · #b98478
- Auburn GlazeΔE00 2.186 · #b58271
- Fresh CedarΔE00 2.519 · #a77f74
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.