Rustling Leaves
#ad6961
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ad6961
RGB
173, 105, 97
OKLCh
59.3% 0.089 27.3°
CIELAB (D50)
52.0, 27.3, 16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 69.0; on black, Lc -32.7. 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 25.5 and 27.1 and 36.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.23:1 — large text only
Black text
4.97:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.97:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a8655d 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
#ad6961
protanopia
#737361 · ΔE00 25.5
deuteranopia
#82825f · ΔE00 27.1
tritanopia
#909000 · ΔE00 36.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrick Dust at ΔE00 0.676: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Brick DustΔE00 0.676 · #ab685f
- BrickyardΔE00 1.043 · #ab6a64
- Peach DunesΔE00 1.591 · #b3695f
- Scene StealerΔE00 1.665 · #af6d62
- Melon TwistΔE00 1.727 · #aa6864
- Henna ShadeΔE00 1.785 · #b3675d
- Jabłoński BrownΔE00 1.879 · #ad6d68
- Coral TreeΔE00 1.88 · #ab6e67
- Preserved PetalsΔE00 1.989 · #b0655a
- Pineapple BlossomΔE00 2.159 · #b4655c
- MudbrickΔE00 2.185 · #a46960
- Copper PennyΔE00 2.22 · #ad6f69
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.