Blushing Rose
#e09b81
An orange that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e09b81
RGB
224, 155, 129
OKLCh
75.1% 0.091 41.5°
CIELAB (D50)
70.5, 24.3, 24.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.0; on black, Lc -57.1. 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 23.5 and 24.6 and 34.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.29:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a7664e 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
#e09b81
protanopia
#a5a581 · ΔE00 23.5
deuteranopia
#b3b37e · ΔE00 24.6
tritanopia
#c1c100 · ΔE00 34.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLight Terracotta at ΔE00 0.219: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Light TerracottaΔE00 0.219 · #df9b81
- Chinese Ibis BrownΔE00 1.261 · #e09e87
- Southwest StoneΔE00 1.425 · #de9f85
- Pinkish TanΔE00 1.522 · #d99b82
- Sienna OchreΔE00 1.704 · #de9f83
- Tropical BloomsΔE00 1.945 · #d7967e
- SockeyeΔE00 2.063 · #e49780
- Tonys PinkΔE00 2.107 · #e79e88
- Mozzarella Covered ChorizoΔE00 2.189 · #e39b7a
- ShrimpΔE00 2.254 · #e29a86
- Terra EarthΔE00 2.285 · #d59982
- Buffed CopperΔE00 2.407 · #dd9475
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.