Shy Champagne Blush
#dea392
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
#dea392
RGB
222, 163, 146
OKLCh
76.7% 0.075 36.7°
CIELAB (D50)
72.4, 20.9, 17.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 42.2; on black, Lc -60.0. 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 22.9 and 23.8 and 34.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a0695a 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
#dea392
protanopia
#abab92 · ΔE00 22.9
deuteranopia
#b7b790 · ΔE00 23.8
tritanopia
#c3c300 · ΔE00 34.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPelican Pink at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pelican PinkΔE00 0.914 · #e2a695
- Conch PinkΔE00 1.328 · #dba496
- Pink PalazzoΔE00 1.382 · #df9f8f
- Venetian PlasterΔE00 1.484 · #e0a28d
- Auburn WaveΔE00 1.493 · #d8a394
- Medium TerracottaΔE00 1.649 · #dc9d8b
- CedarvilleΔE00 1.767 · #dda896
- Indian MesaΔE00 2.057 · #d5a193
- Rose DuskΔE00 2.105 · #e5a192
- Ageless BeautyΔE00 2.114 · #e7a995
- Coral BlushΔE00 2.152 · #e5a090
- RosetteeΔE00 2.185 · #d7a491
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.