Bruschetta
#b2654e
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b2654e
RGB
178, 101, 78
OKLCh
58.9% 0.105 37.4°
CIELAB (D50)
51.5, 30.1, 27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.6; on black, Lc -32.1. 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 25.9 and 27.7 and 34.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.32:1 — large text only
Black text
4.86:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.86:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af624b 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
#b2654e
protanopia
#71714f · ΔE00 25.9
deuteranopia
#82824a · ΔE00 27.7
tritanopia
#929200 · ΔE00 34.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeathclaw Brown at ΔE00 1.192: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deathclaw BrownΔE00 1.192 · #b36853
- Brown WoodΔE00 1.195 · #b4674d
- Red CentΔE00 1.42 · #ad654c
- Autumn IvyΔE00 1.709 · #b9674e
- ClayΔE00 1.947 · #b66a50
- Deep Clay RedΔE00 1.971 · #ae6a52
- Clay FigureΔE00 2.07 · #af604d
- Soho RedΔE00 2.155 · #ab6953
- Rusty GateΔE00 2.242 · #af6649
- Maui Mai TaiΔE00 2.31 · #b66044
- Bear ClawΔE00 2.369 · #ae6b52
- Georgia ClayΔE00 2.401 · #b06144
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.