Old Rose
#c08081
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
#c08081
RGB
192, 128, 129
OKLCh
66.5% 0.080 18.4°
CIELAB (D50)
60.4, 25.6, 10.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 58.6; on black, Lc -43.2. 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 23.4 and 26.9 and 40.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.16:1 — large text only
Black text
6.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a46667 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
#c08081
protanopia
#898981 · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#96967f · ΔE00 26.9
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 40.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaker Rose at ΔE00 0.905: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Baker RoseΔE00 0.905 · #bf8284
- Chick FlickΔE00 1.074 · #bf7d80
- New Haven RoseΔE00 1.733 · #bd827f
- Impatient HeartΔE00 1.773 · #c47d7c
- PrancerΔE00 1.96 · #c58380
- EnamouredΔE00 2.449 · #c67d84
- Rennie’s RoseΔE00 2.555 · #b87f84
- All’s AceΔE00 2.583 · #c68886
- Brownish PinkΔE00 2.604 · #c27e79
- Begonia RoseΔE00 2.604 · #c3797f
- Fiesta RojoΔE00 2.655 · #b67c80
- Wild PartyΔE00 2.698 · #b97a77
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.