Strawberry Risotto
#eec6bf
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
#eec6bf
RGB
238, 198, 191
OKLCh
85.9% 0.047 29.7°
CIELAB (D50)
83.3, 13.9, 9.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 24 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 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.6; on black, Lc -77.4. 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 17.5 and 19.5 and 35.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#926e68 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
#eec6bf
protanopia
#cbcbbf · ΔE00 17.5
deuteranopia
#d3d3be · ΔE00 19.5
tritanopia
#dbdb00 · ΔE00 35.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAltered Pink at ΔE00 0.843: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Altered PinkΔE00 0.843 · #efc7be
- Rose HazeΔE00 0.87 · #ecc5c0
- Snow PinkΔE00 0.917 · #ebc6c0
- Gentle KissΔE00 0.97 · #ebc4bf
- Peach AshΔE00 1.129 · #efc4bb
- Sonia RoseΔE00 1.16 · #f3c8c2
- Prairie RoseΔE00 1.361 · #f2c8be
- CongoΔE00 1.399 · #e8c3be
- OleanderΔE00 1.439 · #f2ccc5
- Cake Pop PinkΔE00 1.588 · #f6cac3
- Delicate Pink RoseΔE00 1.624 · #eec6c3
- Rose PetalΔE00 1.627 · #e6c1bb
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.