Persicus
#ffb49b
A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffb49b
RGB
255, 180, 155
OKLCh
83.5% 0.095 39.2°
CIELAB (D50)
80.2, 25.9, 24.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 30.7; on black, Lc -72.1. 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 24.3 and 25.7 and 36.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a9654e 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
#ffb49b
protanopia
#bebe9b · ΔE00 24.3
deuteranopia
#cece98 · ΔE00 25.7
tritanopia
#dddd00 · ΔE00 36.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMermaid Cheeks at ΔE00 0.539: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mermaid CheeksΔE00 0.539 · #fcb39a
- Island GirlΔE00 0.742 · #ffb59a
- Prairie SunsetΔE00 0.878 · #ffb199
- Buttery SalmonΔE00 1.074 · #ffb19a
- Peach NectarΔE00 1.611 · #ffae96
- Simply CoralΔE00 2.069 · #fbad90
- Pink PersimmonΔE00 2.128 · #ffad97
- Pallid OrangeΔE00 2.182 · #fcb99d
- Discreet OrangeΔE00 2.321 · #ffad98
- Nature ApricotΔE00 2.444 · #feb7a5
- No Way RoséΔE00 2.743 · #fbaa95
- Blushing ApricotΔE00 2.777 · #fbbca7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.