Himalayan Salt
#c07765
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c07765
RGB
192, 119, 101
OKLCh
64.3% 0.096 34.6°
CIELAB (D50)
57.8, 27.9, 22.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.9; on black, Lc -39.8. 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 25.3 and 26.8 and 35.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.46:1 — large text only
Black text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ab6452 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
#c07765
protanopia
#828266 · ΔE00 25.3
deuteranopia
#919162 · ΔE00 26.8
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 35.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNovember at ΔE00 0.809: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- NovemberΔE00 0.809 · #be7767
- First LadyΔE00 0.965 · #c47967
- Döner KebabΔE00 1.133 · #bb7766
- Caribbean CoralΔE00 1.404 · #c07761
- Azalea PotΔE00 1.482 · #ba7462
- Pompeian PinkΔE00 1.778 · #c87763
- Peach MacaronΔE00 1.799 · #c67464
- Sahara SunΔE00 1.966 · #c67363
- Aloe BlossomΔE00 2.062 · #c97863
- Cajun SpiceΔE00 2.237 · #c3705f
- PinataΔE00 2.266 · #c17a62
- Faneuil BrickΔE00 2.301 · #bb7b6d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.