Mutabilis
#c29594
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
#c29594
RGB
194, 149, 148
OKLCh
71.2% 0.054 20.0°
CIELAB (D50)
66.0, 17.3, 7.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% 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 51.0; on black, Lc -50.9. 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 18.8 and 21.7 and 36.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.62:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966c6b 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
#c29594
protanopia
#9b9b94 · ΔE00 18.8
deuteranopia
#a4a493 · ΔE00 21.7
tritanopia
#adad00 · ΔE00 36.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFall Canyon at ΔE00 1.07: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fall CanyonΔE00 1.07 · #c69896
- Floral TapestryΔE00 1.553 · #c39191
- Minstrel RoseΔE00 1.624 · #c89697
- Rosy BrownΔE00 1.874 · #bc8f8f
- Rose BrownΔE00 2.207 · #bc8e8f
- Silk StoneΔE00 2.267 · #cc9999
- PepperberryΔE00 2.33 · #c79d9b
- Profound PinkΔE00 2.522 · #c39297
- RemembranceΔE00 2.618 · #ca9e9c
- Cherry JuiceΔE00 2.762 · #bd9095
- Gilman RoseΔE00 2.903 · #cd9d99
- Twice ShyΔE00 2.949 · #ca999e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.