Ludicrous Lemming
#bb8877
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
#bb8877
RGB
187, 136, 119
OKLCh
67.2% 0.068 39.2°
CIELAB (D50)
61.5, 18.4, 17.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 57.2; on black, Lc -44.6. 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 21.7 and 22.5 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.04:1 — large text only
Black text
6.90:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.90:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6b5b 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
#bb8877
protanopia
#8f8f77 · ΔE00 21.7
deuteranopia
#999975 · ΔE00 22.5
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBig Cypress at ΔE00 0.654: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Big CypressΔE00 0.654 · #b98675
- Ginger RoseΔE00 1.106 · #be8774
- Copper TrailΔE00 1.414 · #c18978
- TuscanyΔE00 1.759 · #b98c7b
- Terrazzo TanΔE00 1.888 · #be8973
- Auburn GlazeΔE00 1.986 · #b58271
- FoxenΔE00 1.987 · #bf8e7f
- Yum Raw SpamΔE00 2.26 · #c58a78
- Roycroft RoseΔE00 2.274 · #c08f80
- Dusky DamaskΔE00 2.337 · #b98478
- Western PinkΔE00 2.348 · #ba816e
- Canyon EarthΔE00 2.386 · #b18575
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.