Peach Dunes
#b3695f
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b3695f
RGB
179, 105, 95
OKLCh
60.1% 0.097 28.5°
CIELAB (D50)
52.8, 29.5, 19.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 68.0; on black, Lc -33.6. 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 26.1 and 27.8 and 37.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.12:1 — large text only
Black text
5.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac6359 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
#b3695f
protanopia
#74745f · ΔE00 26.1
deuteranopia
#84845c · ΔE00 27.8
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 37.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHenna Shade at ΔE00 0.62: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Henna ShadeΔE00 0.62 · #b3675d
- Water PersimmonΔE00 1.184 · #b56c60
- Pineapple BlossomΔE00 1.251 · #b4655c
- Preserved PetalsΔE00 1.474 · #b0655a
- Rustling LeavesΔE00 1.591 · #ad6961
- Scene StealerΔE00 1.649 · #af6d62
- Hacienda TileΔE00 1.667 · #b86d64
- Brick DustΔE00 1.874 · #ab685f
- BadlandsΔE00 1.886 · #b5695a
- Bantam EggΔE00 2.264 · #af6c5d
- Electric BrownΔE00 2.267 · #b56257
- Sienna RedΔE00 2.443 · #b1635e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.