Rosy Brown
#bc8f8f
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
#bc8f8f
RGB
188, 143, 143
OKLCh
69.3% 0.055 18.6°
CIELAB (D50)
63.8, 17.6, 7.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 54.0; on black, Lc -47.8. 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 18.7 and 21.8 and 36.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.46:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.46:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#976c6c 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
#bc8f8f
protanopia
#95958f · ΔE00 18.7
deuteranopia
#9e9e8e · ΔE00 21.8
tritanopia
#a7a700 · ΔE00 36.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Brown at ΔE00 0.511: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rose BrownΔE00 0.511 · #bc8e8f
- Floral TapestryΔE00 1.632 · #c39191
- MutabilisΔE00 1.874 · #c29594
- Victorian MauveΔE00 2 · #b68b88
- Cherry JuiceΔE00 2.021 · #bd9095
- Shabby ChicΔE00 2.147 · #bb8a8e
- Smoky PinkΔE00 2.161 · #bb8d88
- ProphetessΔE00 2.183 · #be8b8f
- Brandy SnapsΔE00 2.233 · #b58e8b
- Profound PinkΔE00 2.505 · #c39297
- RosenkavalierΔE00 2.743 · #bc8a90
- Toki BrownΔE00 2.774 · #b88884
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.