Salmon Glow
#ebb9af
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
#ebb9af
RGB
235, 185, 175
OKLCh
82.8% 0.060 31.4°
CIELAB (D50)
79.5, 17.5, 12.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 23 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.5; on black, Lc -71.2. 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 20.8 and 22.7 and 35.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.74:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#996c63 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
#ebb9af
protanopia
#bfbfaf · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#c9c9ae · ΔE00 22.7
tritanopia
#d4d400 · ΔE00 35.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Cocoa at ΔE00 0.653: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink CocoaΔE00 0.653 · #e9b7ac
- Peach SouffleΔE00 0.805 · #ecbcb2
- Carnation CoralΔE00 0.86 · #edb9ad
- Pensive PinkΔE00 0.901 · #eab6ad
- Rachel PinkΔE00 0.923 · #e8b9ae
- Pink CashmereΔE00 1.214 · #ecbab3
- Inner ChildΔE00 1.231 · #f1bdb2
- Noble BlushΔE00 1.333 · #e8b9b2
- Ballerina TearsΔE00 1.42 · #f2bbb1
- Sweet SherryΔE00 1.538 · #eebdb6
- Beauty BushΔE00 1.569 · #ebb9b3
- Magnolia PinkΔE00 1.609 · #ecb9b3
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.