Grand Sunset
#c38d87
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
#c38d87
RGB
195, 141, 135
OKLCh
69.4% 0.067 26.1°
CIELAB (D50)
63.9, 20.5, 11.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 53.9; on black, Lc -47.9. 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 22.2 and 24.5 and 36.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.48:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.48:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9d6a64 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
#c38d87
protanopia
#949487 · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#9f9f85 · ΔE00 24.5
tritanopia
#aaaa00 · ΔE00 36.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCeremonial Ochre at ΔE00 1.376: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ceremonial OchreΔE00 1.376 · #c38b82
- Evening BlushΔE00 1.475 · #c49087
- Portuguese DawnΔE00 1.677 · #c48f85
- Burnished ApricotΔE00 1.987 · #c48d82
- Smoky PinkΔE00 2.106 · #bb8d88
- Resounding RoseΔE00 2.265 · #cd8e89
- All’s AceΔE00 2.404 · #c68886
- SunstoneΔE00 2.465 · #c7887f
- Red CloverΔE00 2.564 · #bb8580
- Toki BrownΔE00 2.641 · #b88884
- RosetteΔE00 2.689 · #ce8e8b
- Cameo BrownΔE00 2.741 · #be847d
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.