Muddy Rose
#e2beb4
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e2beb4
RGB
226, 190, 180
OKLCh
83.0% 0.044 36.0°
CIELAB (D50)
80.0, 12.1, 10.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.8; on black, Lc -72.0. 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 16.6 and 18.2 and 32.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.26:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.26:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#906f66 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
#e2beb4
protanopia
#c2c2b4 · ΔE00 16.6
deuteranopia
#c9c9b3 · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#d1d100 · ΔE00 32.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach Powder at ΔE00 0.363: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Peach PowderΔE00 0.363 · #e2bdb3
- Sweet PeachΔE00 0.886 · #e2bcb3
- Positively PinkΔE00 1.415 · #e7bfb6
- Silver PeonyΔE00 1.478 · #e1c1b9
- AdorableΔE00 1.619 · #e3beb0
- Calico RoseΔE00 1.805 · #e5c1b3
- Antoinette PinkΔE00 1.888 · #e7c2b4
- Peach BlushΔE00 1.902 · #dcbeb5
- Mellow MarrowΔE00 1.918 · #e8c2b4
- Rose PetalΔE00 1.955 · #e6c1bb
- Sunwashed BrickΔE00 2.03 · #e3c1b3
- Golden GuernseyΔE00 2.153 · #e1c3bb
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.