Nipple
#bb7777
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#bb7777
RGB
187, 119, 119
OKLCh
64.1% 0.086 19.7°
CIELAB (D50)
57.5, 27.4, 11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 62.3; on black, Lc -39.4. 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 24.6 and 27.6 and 40.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.49:1 — large text only
Black text
6.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a76565 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
#bb7777
protanopia
#818177 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#8f8f75 · ΔE00 27.6
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 40.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWild Party at ΔE00 1.454: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wild PartyΔE00 1.454 · #b97a77
- Canyon RoseΔE00 2.159 · #b47571
- Brandied ApricotΔE00 2.262 · #c27275
- Deep BloomΔE00 2.273 · #c57776
- Rita’s RougeΔE00 2.321 · #ba7176
- Chick FlickΔE00 2.322 · #bf7d80
- Impatient HeartΔE00 2.418 · #c47d7c
- Cranberry PieΔE00 2.493 · #c27277
- Red GerberaΔE00 2.524 · #b07473
- Exotic IncenseΔE00 2.638 · #b86f73
- Cinnamon RollΔE00 2.661 · #c0737a
- Begonia RoseΔE00 2.665 · #c3797f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.