Apricot Haze
#ffaaaa
A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffaaaa
RGB
255, 170, 170
OKLCh
82.1% 0.101 19.5°
CIELAB (D50)
78.2, 32.1, 13.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.6; on black, Lc -69.0. 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 26.1 and 29.3 and 45.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ae6162 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
#ffaaaa
protanopia
#b6b6aa · ΔE00 26.1
deuteranopia
#c8c8a7 · ΔE00 29.3
tritanopia
#d9d900 · ΔE00 45.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUpstream Salmon at ΔE00 0.923: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Upstream SalmonΔE00 0.923 · #ffa8a6
- Pouty PinkΔE00 1.5 · #f9a7a4
- Her MajestyΔE00 1.53 · #f9a4a4
- Pink DreamΔE00 1.702 · #fea5a2
- Fancy FlamingoΔE00 1.714 · #ffb1b0
- Alright Then I Became a PrincessΔE00 1.732 · #ffaaa5
- Cornflower LilacΔE00 1.857 · #ffb0ac
- Patient PinkΔE00 2.054 · #ffaba5
- CalabreseΔE00 2.155 · #f4a6a3
- Wildflower BouquetΔE00 2.233 · #ffb3b1
- Candy Heart PinkΔE00 2.267 · #f5a2a1
- RoseberryΔE00 2.554 · #f4a6a1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.