Chewing Gum
#e6b0af
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
#e6b0af
RGB
230, 176, 175
OKLCh
80.6% 0.063 19.8°
CIELAB (D50)
76.9, 20.2, 8.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.5; on black, Lc -67.0. 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 20.8 and 24.0 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9b6a6a 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
#e6b0af
protanopia
#b7b7af · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#c2c2ae · ΔE00 24.0
tritanopia
#cdcd00 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPerfect Pink at ΔE00 1.086: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Perfect PinkΔE00 1.086 · #e5b3b2
- Strawberry YoghurtΔE00 1.108 · #e9b3b4
- Naked RoseΔE00 1.317 · #ebb5b3
- Deeply EmbarrassedΔE00 1.375 · #ecb2b3
- Summer CocktailsΔE00 1.532 · #ecb6b5
- Camille PinkΔE00 1.611 · #eeb5b4
- Shaded PrimroseΔE00 1.618 · #ebaeac
- Pink StockΔE00 1.869 · #ddabab
- Peach PoppyΔE00 1.937 · #ddaaaa
- Grim PinkΔE00 2.009 · #deadaf
- Pink DustΔE00 2.021 · #e4b5b2
- Sweet TartΔE00 2.079 · #eaaea9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.