HueComb

Amaretto

#ab6f60

A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ab6f60

RGB

171, 111, 96

OKLCh

60.2% 0.080 34.7°

CIELAB (D50)

53.1, 23.2, 18.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 only 38% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.7; on black, Lc -34.0. 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 23.9 and 24.7 and 33.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.06:1 — large text only

Black text

5.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a36859 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

#ab6f60

protanopia

#787860 · ΔE00 23.9

deuteranopia

#84845e · ΔE00 24.7

tritanopia

#919100 · ΔE00 33.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTangier at ΔE00 1.197: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • TangierΔE00 1.197 · #a97164
  • Terra Cotta UrnΔE00 1.202 · #b06f60
  • Bantam EggΔE00 1.5 · #af6c5d
  • Pajarito RedΔE00 1.518 · #ad7362
  • Pinkish BrownΔE00 1.677 · #b17261
  • New England BrickΔE00 1.685 · #ad7065
  • ClovedustΔE00 1.796 · #b0705d
  • Blast-Off BronzeΔE00 1.935 · #a57164
  • Cedar WoodΔE00 1.957 · #a97367
  • Honey MapleΔE00 1.993 · #a46d5c
  • Scene StealerΔE00 2.008 · #af6d62
  • Vin CuitΔE00 2.466 · #b47463

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