Whisky
#c2877b
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
#c2877b
RGB
194, 135, 123
OKLCh
67.9% 0.075 31.9°
CIELAB (D50)
62.1, 22.2, 16.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 56.3; on black, Lc -45.5. 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 23.6 and 24.9 and 35.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a1685d 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
#c2877b
protanopia
#8f8f7b · ΔE00 23.6
deuteranopia
#9b9b79 · ΔE00 24.9
tritanopia
#a7a700 · ΔE00 35.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isArgyle Rose at ΔE00 1.274: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Argyle RoseΔE00 1.274 · #c48677
- SunstoneΔE00 1.636 · #c7887f
- Ceremonial OchreΔE00 1.709 · #c38b82
- Burnished ApricotΔE00 1.843 · #c48d82
- Luscious LobsterΔE00 2.023 · #c5847c
- Dusky DamaskΔE00 2.038 · #b98478
- Copper TrailΔE00 2.127 · #c18978
- Cameo BrownΔE00 2.172 · #be847d
- Rose de MaiΔE00 2.403 · #cb8e81
- Yum Raw SpamΔE00 2.422 · #c58a78
- Portuguese DawnΔE00 2.562 · #c48f85
- Ginger WhisperΔE00 2.725 · #cc8877
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.