Creamed Caramel
#b79c94
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
#b79c94
RGB
183, 156, 148
OKLCh
71.5% 0.034 37.1°
CIELAB (D50)
66.6, 9.3, 8.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 50.1; on black, Lc -51.8. 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 13.6 and 14.9 and 29.3 — 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
#8b716a 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
#b79c94
protanopia
#9f9f94 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#a5a593 · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#aaaa00 · ΔE00 29.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIris Mauve at ΔE00 1.204: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Iris MauveΔE00 1.204 · #b39b94
- NatchezΔE00 1.253 · #ba9f95
- Adobe RoseΔE00 1.309 · #ba9f99
- Quiet RefugeΔE00 1.357 · #b69c97
- Big Horn MountainsΔE00 1.385 · #b79e94
- Del RioΔE00 1.603 · #b5998e
- Pink GraniteΔE00 1.776 · #bd9e97
- Coca MochaΔE00 1.838 · #bd9d95
- Tricycle TaupeΔE00 2.14 · #b09994
- Rose MauveΔE00 2.208 · #af9690
- Shadow GreyΔE00 2.298 · #b09691
- Dressy RoseΔE00 2.318 · #b89d9a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.