Morocco
#b67267
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b67267
RGB
182, 114, 103
OKLCh
62.2% 0.088 29.8°
CIELAB (D50)
55.4, 26.7, 18.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 64.9; on black, Lc -36.7. 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 25.3 and 26.6 and 36.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.76:1 — large text only
Black text
5.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.59:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a8655a 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
#b67267
protanopia
#7c7c67 · ΔE00 25.3
deuteranopia
#8a8a65 · ΔE00 26.6
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 36.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRojo Dust at ΔE00 1.317: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rojo DustΔE00 1.317 · #b57466
- Hacienda TileΔE00 1.747 · #b86d64
- Water PersimmonΔE00 1.936 · #b56c60
- New England BrickΔE00 2.082 · #ad7065
- Scene StealerΔE00 2.088 · #af6d62
- Terra Cotta UrnΔE00 2.246 · #b06f60
- Terra ToneΔE00 2.295 · #b6706b
- Earth RoseΔE00 2.374 · #b57770
- Vin CuitΔE00 2.419 · #b47463
- CobrizoΔE00 2.512 · #b56d5d
- Pinkish BrownΔE00 2.612 · #b17261
- Azalea PotΔE00 2.703 · #ba7462
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.