Bite My Tongue
#d47d72
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d47d72
RGB
212, 125, 114
OKLCh
68.1% 0.110 28.0°
CIELAB (D50)
62.0, 33.7, 21.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.5; on black, Lc -45.2. 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 27.3 and 29.9 and 41.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.01:1 — large text only
Black text
6.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b25f55 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
#d47d72
protanopia
#8a8a73 · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#9d9d6f · ΔE00 29.9
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 41.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGolgfag Brown at ΔE00 1.184: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Golgfag BrownΔE00 1.184 · #d77e70
- Tawny OrangeΔE00 1.774 · #d37f6f
- Coral GardenΔE00 2.028 · #cf8179
- CranappleΔE00 2.054 · #db8079
- Canyon ClayΔE00 2.086 · #cb7d6f
- Masoho RedΔE00 2.109 · #d57c6b
- Marmalade MagicΔE00 2.146 · #df7f73
- Chilli SodaΔE00 2.292 · #ca7c74
- Lei FlowerΔE00 2.319 · #d87b6a
- Hearts AfireΔE00 2.424 · #d47a76
- New York PinkΔE00 2.513 · #dd8374
- Light TomatoΔE00 2.625 · #d0756f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.