Vin Cuit
#b47463
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b47463
RGB
180, 116, 99
OKLCh
62.2% 0.085 35.6°
CIELAB (D50)
55.5, 24.5, 20.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.8; on black, Lc -36.9. 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 24.2 and 25.1 and 33.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.74:1 — large text only
Black text
5.62:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.62:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a56756 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
#b47463
protanopia
#7d7d63 · ΔE00 24.2
deuteranopia
#8b8b61 · ΔE00 25.1
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 33.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPinkish Brown at ΔE00 0.856: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pinkish BrownΔE00 0.856 · #b17261
- Rojo DustΔE00 1.172 · #b57466
- Azalea PotΔE00 1.388 · #ba7462
- Caramel CandyΔE00 1.47 · #b3715d
- Crushed CinnamonΔE00 1.583 · #b7735e
- Pajarito RedΔE00 1.648 · #ad7362
- ClovedustΔE00 1.676 · #b0705d
- Döner KebabΔE00 1.694 · #bb7766
- Terra Cotta UrnΔE00 1.824 · #b06f60
- CobrizoΔE00 2.302 · #b56d5d
- NovemberΔE00 2.354 · #be7767
- MoroccoΔE00 2.419 · #b67267
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.