Indian Mesa
#d5a193
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
#d5a193
RGB
213, 161, 147
OKLCh
75.4% 0.065 35.6°
CIELAB (D50)
71.0, 18.4, 15.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.2; on black, Lc -57.9. 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 21.7 and 23.0 and 33.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9b6b5e 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
#d5a193
protanopia
#a8a893 · ΔE00 21.7
deuteranopia
#b2b291 · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#bdbd00 · ΔE00 33.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBadshahi Brown at ΔE00 0.585: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Badshahi BrownΔE00 0.585 · #d3a194
- Auburn WaveΔE00 0.737 · #d8a394
- Soft SiennaΔE00 1.231 · #d09f93
- Conch PinkΔE00 1.261 · #dba496
- Nectarine SpiceΔE00 1.653 · #d29b8d
- Cottage RoseΔE00 1.887 · #d9a89a
- Kitten’s PawΔE00 1.909 · #daa89b
- Bubble ShellΔE00 1.949 · #d3a49a
- Shy Champagne BlushΔE00 2.057 · #dea392
- RosetteeΔE00 2.102 · #d7a491
- MuskΔE00 2.389 · #cca195
- Shiny KettleΔE00 2.42 · #cea190
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.