HueComb

No Way Rosé

#fbaa95

A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fbaa95

RGB

251, 170, 149

OKLCh

81.2% 0.101 35.2°

CIELAB (D50)

77.3, 28.9, 23.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 93% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.0; on black, Lc -67.6. 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 25.6 and 27.4 and 38.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.86:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.29:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.29:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ad6350 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

#fbaa95

protanopia

#b6b696 · ΔE00 25.6

deuteranopia

#c6c692 · ΔE00 27.4

tritanopia

#d7d700 · ΔE00 38.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrozen Salmon at ΔE00 0.727: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Frozen SalmonΔE00 0.727 · #fea993
  • Discreet OrangeΔE00 0.847 · #ffad98
  • Pink PersimmonΔE00 0.88 · #ffad97
  • Duchess RoseΔE00 0.948 · #f7aa97
  • Pretty PrimroseΔE00 1.094 · #f5a994
  • Peach NectarΔE00 1.368 · #ffae96
  • Au ContraireΔE00 1.441 · #f6a694
  • Coral SerenadeΔE00 1.463 · #f9a48e
  • Pink Rose BudΔE00 1.506 · #feab9a
  • Honey Baked HamΔE00 1.615 · #ffaa99
  • Buttery SalmonΔE00 1.765 · #ffb19a
  • Citrus HillΔE00 1.809 · #f9a78d

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