HueComb

Deeply Embarrassed

#ecb2b3

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

#ecb2b3

RGB

236, 178, 179

OKLCh

81.7% 0.068 17.5°

CIELAB (D50)

78.1, 21.8, 8.2

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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.7; on black, Lc -68.9. 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 21.2 and 24.8 and 41.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.81:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.59:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.59:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9d696a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#ecb2b3

protanopia

#babab3 · ΔE00 21.2

deuteranopia

#c5c5b1 · ΔE00 24.8

tritanopia

#d1d100 · ΔE00 41.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Yoghurt at ΔE00 0.9: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Strawberry YoghurtΔE00 0.9 · #e9b3b4
  • Camille PinkΔE00 1.004 · #eeb5b4
  • Jaguar RoseΔE00 1.176 · #f1b3b6
  • Summer CocktailsΔE00 1.333 · #ecb6b5
  • Chewing GumΔE00 1.375 · #e6b0af
  • Naked RoseΔE00 1.456 · #ebb5b3
  • Shaded PrimroseΔE00 1.622 · #ebaeac
  • Old FlameΔE00 1.714 · #f2b7b5
  • Precious PinkΔE00 1.892 · #f6b5b6
  • Perfect PinkΔE00 1.956 · #e5b3b2
  • Brain PinkΔE00 2.101 · #f2aeb1
  • Marzipan PinkΔE00 2.213 · #eebabc

10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.