HueComb

Garden Snail

#cdb1ab

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

#cdb1ab

RGB

205, 177, 171

OKLCh

78.3% 0.034 32.1°

CIELAB (D50)

74.6, 9.7, 7.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 26% 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 38.9; on black, Lc -63.5. 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 13.5 and 15.0 and 31.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.01:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.47:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.47:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b716b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cdb1ab

protanopia

#b4b4ab · ΔE00 13.5

deuteranopia

#babaaa · ΔE00 15.0

tritanopia

#bfbf00 · ΔE00 31.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYoung Turk at ΔE00 0.96: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Young TurkΔE00 0.96 · #c9afa9
  • Plymouth NotchΔE00 0.994 · #cdb3ac
  • Insightful RoseΔE00 1.157 · #c9b0ab
  • LaceyΔE00 1.539 · #caaeab
  • Lime Hawk MothΔE00 1.657 · #cdaea5
  • Oyster PinkΔE00 1.703 · #d4b5b0
  • Rosy TanΔE00 1.841 · #c8aba7
  • Damask DunesΔE00 1.852 · #d1b3a9
  • Wispy MauveΔE00 1.853 · #c6aeaa
  • Pinkish GreyΔE00 1.872 · #c8aca9
  • Castilian PinkΔE00 2.059 · #d4b3aa
  • LovebugΔE00 2.087 · #c8aba8

12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.