Boho Blush
#e58787
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e58787
RGB
229, 135, 135
OKLCh
72.3% 0.116 20.3°
CIELAB (D50)
66.7, 36.8, 16.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.1; on black, Lc -51.8. 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 27.4 and 31.1 and 45.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.15:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.15:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b55c5e 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
#e58787
protanopia
#969688 · ΔE00 27.4
deuteranopia
#aaaa84 · ΔE00 31.1
tritanopia
#bdbd00 · ΔE00 45.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Chi at ΔE00 0.754: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink ChiΔE00 0.754 · #e4898a
- Sugar PoppyΔE00 1.394 · #e58281
- Apple ValleyΔE00 1.446 · #ea8386
- Finest BlushΔE00 1.591 · #dd8888
- Steamed SalmonΔE00 1.63 · #ee8888
- Flamingo DreamΔE00 1.748 · #ee888b
- Strawberry IceΔE00 2.156 · #e78b90
- CheeryΔE00 2.208 · #f08a88
- CopperfieldΔE00 2.327 · #da8a88
- Peaches of ImmortalityΔE00 2.349 · #d98586
- Sea PinkΔE00 2.508 · #db817e
- PulpΔE00 2.583 · #e18289
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.