Savoury Salmon
#d19c97
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
#d19c97
RGB
209, 156, 151
OKLCh
74.1% 0.064 24.9°
CIELAB (D50)
69.4, 19.8, 10.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.4; on black, Lc -55.7. 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 21.6 and 24.1 and 37.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.91:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.91:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6a66 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
#d19c97
protanopia
#a3a397 · ΔE00 21.6
deuteranopia
#aeae95 · ΔE00 24.1
tritanopia
#b9b900 · ΔE00 37.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDull Apricot at ΔE00 0.248: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dull ApricotΔE00 0.248 · #d09c97
- Gilman RoseΔE00 1.282 · #cd9d99
- Evening DressΔE00 1.667 · #d1a19b
- Raffia CreamΔE00 2.125 · #cda09a
- Rose PotteryΔE00 2.165 · #d0a29e
- Passive PinkΔE00 2.227 · #dba29e
- Silk StoneΔE00 2.233 · #cc9999
- Shanghai PeachΔE00 2.356 · #d79a91
- TobermoryΔE00 2.36 · #d39898
- Ruby EyeΔE00 2.468 · #d0a2a0
- Sakura MochiΔE00 2.508 · #cea19f
- RemembranceΔE00 2.56 · #ca9e9c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.