Babe
#dc7b7c
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dc7b7c
RGB
220, 123, 124
OKLCh
69.0% 0.121 20.0°
CIELAB (D50)
62.8, 38.5, 17.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.4; on black, Lc -46.4. 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 27.8 and 31.9 and 45.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.93:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b85b5d 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
#dc7b7c
protanopia
#8b8b7d · ΔE00 27.8
deuteranopia
#a0a079 · ΔE00 31.9
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 45.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJuicy Details at ΔE00 1.306: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Juicy DetailsΔE00 1.306 · #d9787c
- Red CedarΔE00 1.452 · #d87678
- Sea PinkΔE00 1.791 · #db817e
- Hearts AfireΔE00 2.136 · #d47a76
- Lively CoralΔE00 2.265 · #e67c7a
- Sugar PoppyΔE00 2.394 · #e58281
- LantanaΔE00 2.412 · #d87273
- York PinkΔE00 2.548 · #d7837f
- Peach BlossomΔE00 2.629 · #dc7a83
- Tango PinkΔE00 2.677 · #e47f7a
- CranappleΔE00 2.714 · #db8079
- Peaches of ImmortalityΔE00 2.792 · #d98586
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.