HueComb

Döner Kebab

#bb7766

A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bb7766

RGB

187, 119, 102

OKLCh

63.7% 0.090 34.7°

CIELAB (D50)

57.2, 26.0, 21.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 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 62.7; on black, Lc -39.0. 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 24.8 and 25.9 and 34.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.53:1 — large text only

Black text

5.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a86555 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bb7766

protanopia

#818166 · ΔE00 24.8

deuteranopia

#8f8f63 · ΔE00 25.9

tritanopia

#9d9d00 · ΔE00 34.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNovember at ΔE00 0.793: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.