Nude Lips
#b5948d
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b5948d
RGB
181, 148, 141
OKLCh
69.5% 0.041 32.0°
CIELAB (D50)
64.3, 11.9, 8.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 53.4; on black, Lc -48.4. 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 15.9 and 17.7 and 31.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.59:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f7069 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
#b5948d
protanopia
#98988d · ΔE00 15.9
deuteranopia
#9f9f8c · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#a5a500 · ΔE00 31.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlush Suede at ΔE00 1.054: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Plush SuedeΔE00 1.054 · #b1928c
- Mauve BlushΔE00 1.267 · #b69289
- ThatchΔE00 1.516 · #b1948f
- Cherry TaupeΔE00 1.704 · #b7938f
- Shadow GreyΔE00 2.439 · #b09691
- Lilac SuedeΔE00 2.499 · #ba9b97
- AntoinetteΔE00 2.51 · #b09391
- PonderΔE00 2.634 · #b88f88
- Coca MochaΔE00 2.724 · #bd9d95
- Rose MauveΔE00 2.74 · #af9690
- Hollow BrownΔE00 2.862 · #ac8e84
- Del RioΔE00 2.964 · #b5998e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.