Pink Palazzo
#df9f8f
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#df9f8f
RGB
223, 159, 143
OKLCh
76.0% 0.080 34.6°
CIELAB (D50)
71.5, 23.0, 18.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.5; on black, Lc -58.7. 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 23.9 and 24.9 and 36.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.49:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.49:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a36859 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
#df9f8f
protanopia
#a8a88f · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#b5b58d · ΔE00 24.9
tritanopia
#c2c200 · ΔE00 36.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMedium Terracotta at ΔE00 1.042: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Medium TerracottaΔE00 1.042 · #dc9d8b
- Coral BlushΔE00 1.195 · #e5a090
- Rose DuskΔE00 1.267 · #e5a192
- Shy Champagne BlushΔE00 1.382 · #dea392
- Pelican PinkΔE00 1.879 · #e2a695
- Venetian PlasterΔE00 2.017 · #e0a28d
- Industrial RoseΔE00 2.091 · #e09887
- Conch PinkΔE00 2.142 · #dba496
- ShrimpΔE00 2.169 · #e29a86
- RhapsodicΔE00 2.265 · #dc9e94
- Holland TileΔE00 2.271 · #dd9789
- Auburn WaveΔE00 2.424 · #d8a394
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.