Café Crème
#c79685
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
#c79685
RGB
199, 150, 133
OKLCh
71.5% 0.064 40.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.5, 17.3, 16.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit 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 50.4; on black, Lc -51.5. 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 21.0 and 21.9 and 31.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6c5c 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
#c79685
protanopia
#9d9d85 · ΔE00 21.0
deuteranopia
#a6a683 · ΔE00 21.9
tritanopia
#b0b000 · ΔE00 31.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMesa Peach at ΔE00 1.623: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mesa PeachΔE00 1.623 · #c19180
- Black Hills GoldΔE00 1.803 · #c89180
- Beauty and the BeachΔE00 1.844 · #c99680
- Revenant BrownΔE00 1.919 · #c59782
- CalliopeΔE00 1.932 · #c89a8d
- Simmering RidgeΔE00 2.013 · #cb9281
- Muddy MireΔE00 2.018 · #c3988b
- ArtefactΔE00 2.079 · #ca9d8d
- Persian BazaarΔE00 2.099 · #c5988c
- Tint of EarthΔE00 2.208 · #ce9480
- Roycroft RoseΔE00 2.244 · #c08f80
- Mexican MoonlightΔE00 2.519 · #c99387
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.