Canyon Sunset
#dd8869
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dd8869
RGB
221, 136, 105
OKLCh
70.9% 0.114 40.7°
CIELAB (D50)
65.4, 31.1, 31.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 52.0; on black, Lc -49.9. 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 26.3 and 28.4 and 36.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.69:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b26143 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
#dd8869
protanopia
#95956a · ΔE00 26.3
deuteranopia
#a7a765 · ΔE00 28.4
tritanopia
#b8b800 · ΔE00 36.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidnight in Saigon at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Midnight in SaigonΔE00 0.914 · #dd8866
- King SalmonΔE00 1.033 · #d88668
- Bronzed OrangeΔE00 1.443 · #d78a6c
- Copper CoinΔE00 1.704 · #da8a67
- Copper WireΔE00 1.995 · #db8b67
- Sohi OrangeΔE00 2.216 · #e0815e
- Rosy PashminaΔE00 2.259 · #d38469
- Brewed MustardΔE00 2.341 · #e68364
- Middle RedΔE00 2.452 · #e58e73
- Summer SunsetΔE00 2.454 · #d88167
- Shell CoralΔE00 2.639 · #e88d68
- Dry PeachΔE00 2.694 · #de7e5d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.