Dried Tomatoes
#ab6057
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ab6057
RGB
171, 96, 87
OKLCh
57.3% 0.099 27.8°
CIELAB (D50)
49.5, 30.4, 19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.8; on black, Lc -29.8. 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 26.4 and 28.2 and 37.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.54:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ab6057
protanopia
#6c6c58 · ΔE00 26.4
deuteranopia
#7c7c54 · ΔE00 28.2
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 37.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrairie Poppy at ΔE00 0.874: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Prairie PoppyΔE00 0.874 · #ae5f55
- FoxyΔE00 1.219 · #a85e53
- Poppy ProseΔE00 1.579 · #ae605b
- Giant’s ClubΔE00 1.744 · #b05c52
- Artisan RedΔE00 1.829 · #ac5b50
- Tuscan ClayΔE00 1.896 · #aa5e5a
- Savannah RedΔE00 1.975 · #a36159
- Preserved PetalsΔE00 1.976 · #b0655a
- Trolley DashΔE00 2.041 · #ae5f51
- Pottery RedΔE00 2.076 · #b05d59
- Sienna RedΔE00 2.244 · #b1635e
- EscalanteΔE00 2.324 · #a95f5c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.