Muddy Mire
#c3988b
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
#c3988b
RGB
195, 152, 139
OKLCh
71.6% 0.055 37.5°
CIELAB (D50)
66.7, 15.2, 13.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 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 50.2; on black, Lc -51.8. 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 19.5 and 21.0 and 31.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966d61 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
#c3988b
protanopia
#9e9e8b · ΔE00 19.5
deuteranopia
#a6a68a · ΔE00 21.0
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 31.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPersian Bazaar at ΔE00 0.766: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Persian BazaarΔE00 0.766 · #c5988c
- Pressed BlossomsΔE00 1.04 · #c2968b
- CalliopeΔE00 1.153 · #c89a8d
- Mahogany RoseΔE00 1.857 · #c39d90
- ArtefactΔE00 1.975 · #ca9d8d
- Café CrèmeΔE00 2.018 · #c79685
- Adobe GlowΔE00 2.064 · #c99f93
- Whistler RoseΔE00 2.324 · #c49e8f
- Cabbage RoseΔE00 2.352 · #c59f91
- Revival RoseΔE00 2.524 · #c09084
- Mesa PeachΔE00 2.619 · #c19180
- MuskΔE00 2.688 · #cca195
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.