Watermelon Gelato
#c0686e
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c0686e
RGB
192, 104, 110
OKLCh
62.0% 0.112 16.6°
CIELAB (D50)
54.7, 36.3, 13.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.7; on black, Lc -36.0. 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 26.5 and 30.7 and 44.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.86:1 — large text only
Black text
5.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b35d63 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
#c0686e
protanopia
#76766f · ΔE00 26.5
deuteranopia
#8a8a6b · ΔE00 30.7
tritanopia
#9c9c00 · ΔE00 44.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlayful Pink at ΔE00 1.484: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Playful PinkΔE00 1.484 · #c46c73
- Watermelon CrushΔE00 1.51 · #bf6c6e
- Terra RosaΔE00 1.553 · #bb6569
- Cherry FizzΔE00 1.855 · #bd6973
- Art House PinkΔE00 2.274 · #c06f70
- Slate RoseΔE00 2.422 · #ba6671
- Dusky RoseΔE00 2.527 · #ba6873
- Stormy PassionΔE00 2.594 · #c36666
- Exotic IncenseΔE00 2.661 · #b86f73
- LovebirdsΔE00 2.677 · #c76a77
- Faded RoseΔE00 2.706 · #bf6464
- Strawberry RhubarbΔE00 2.82 · #b96364
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.