Shrimp
#e29a86
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e29a86
RGB
226, 154, 134
OKLCh
75.2% 0.092 36.2°
CIELAB (D50)
70.5, 26.0, 22.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 44.9; on black, Lc -57.2. 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 24.6 and 25.9 and 36.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.20:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.20:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a86553 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
#e29a86
protanopia
#a4a486 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#b3b383 · ΔE00 25.9
tritanopia
#c2c200 · ΔE00 36.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndustrial Rose at ΔE00 1.164: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Industrial RoseΔE00 1.164 · #e09887
- Tonys PinkΔE00 1.331 · #e79e88
- SockeyeΔE00 1.376 · #e49780
- Chinese Ibis BrownΔE00 1.827 · #e09e87
- Medium TerracottaΔE00 1.845 · #dc9d8b
- Ravishing CoralΔE00 1.921 · #e79580
- Coral BlushΔE00 2.11 · #e5a090
- PaddyΔE00 2.148 · #da9585
- Pink PalazzoΔE00 2.169 · #df9f8f
- Blushing RoseΔE00 2.254 · #e09b81
- Holland TileΔE00 2.299 · #dd9789
- Light TerracottaΔE00 2.359 · #df9b81
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.