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#d8948b
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d8948b
RGB
216, 148, 139
OKLCh
73.1% 0.084 27.6°
CIELAB (D50)
68.1, 25.6, 15.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. 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 24.9 and 26.6 and 38.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.46:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.53:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.53:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a6665e 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
#d8948b
protanopia
#9e9e8b · ΔE00 24.9
deuteranopia
#acac89 · ΔE00 26.6
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 38.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoral Cloud at ΔE00 0.875: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Coral CloudΔE00 0.875 · #dc958d
- Petite OrchidΔE00 1.145 · #da9790
- Tuscan ImageΔE00 1.185 · #dc938c
- Coral AtollΔE00 1.428 · #dc938d
- Shanghai PeachΔE00 1.847 · #d79a91
- Fresh WatermelonΔE00 1.96 · #df9689
- Strawberry MemoryΔE00 2 · #e2958d
- Peach PreserveΔE00 2.043 · #d29487
- Salmon Pink RedΔE00 2.068 · #e1958f
- Holland TileΔE00 2.081 · #dd9789
- Strawberry RoseΔE00 2.11 · #e29991
- Dusty CedarΔE00 2.415 · #dd9592
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.