Sable Cloaked
#c4a7a1
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
#c4a7a1
RGB
196, 167, 161
OKLCh
75.2% 0.035 31.6°
CIELAB (D50)
71.0, 10.2, 7.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 44.1; on black, Lc -58.1. 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 14.0 and 15.6 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c716b 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
#c4a7a1
protanopia
#ababa1 · ΔE00 14.0
deuteranopia
#b0b0a0 · ΔE00 15.6
tritanopia
#b6b600 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMohair Mauve at ΔE00 1.446: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mohair MauveΔE00 1.446 · #bfa59e
- Rosy TanΔE00 1.458 · #c8aba7
- ParfaitΔE00 1.757 · #c8a6a1
- LovebugΔE00 1.775 · #c8aba8
- Teatime MauveΔE00 1.892 · #c8a89e
- Patchwork PinkΔE00 1.907 · #c4a89e
- Pinkish GreyΔE00 1.927 · #c8aca9
- Florida GreyΔE00 2.185 · #bea4a2
- DuskyΔE00 2.244 · #c3aba8
- Rose PotpourriΔE00 2.267 · #c9a59f
- Young TurkΔE00 2.299 · #c9afa9
- LaceyΔE00 2.353 · #caaeab
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.