Coca Mocha
#bd9d95
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
#bd9d95
RGB
189, 157, 149
OKLCh
72.3% 0.040 34.3°
CIELAB (D50)
67.5, 11.3, 8.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 49.0; on black, Lc -53.0. 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 15.5 and 17.1 and 30.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.49:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e7068 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
#bd9d95
protanopia
#a1a195 · ΔE00 15.5
deuteranopia
#a7a794 · ΔE00 17.1
tritanopia
#aeae00 · ΔE00 30.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Granite at ΔE00 0.562: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink GraniteΔE00 0.562 · #bd9e97
- Andes AshΔE00 1.053 · #c1a097
- Adobe RoseΔE00 1.811 · #ba9f99
- Creamed CaramelΔE00 1.838 · #b79c94
- Lilac SuedeΔE00 1.848 · #ba9b97
- NatchezΔE00 2.144 · #ba9f95
- AwakeningΔE00 2.312 · #bb9e9b
- Quiet RefugeΔE00 2.355 · #b69c97
- Rose BisqueΔE00 2.496 · #c6a499
- Mahogany RoseΔE00 2.561 · #c39d90
- Just RoseyΔE00 2.599 · #c4a295
- Dressy RoseΔE00 2.614 · #b89d9a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.