Rosa Chinensis
#c77579
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c77579
RGB
199, 117, 121
OKLCh
65.3% 0.103 17.2°
CIELAB (D50)
58.6, 33.3, 12.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.8; on black, Lc -40.9. 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 25.9 and 29.6 and 44.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.36:1 — large text only
Black text
6.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af6064 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
#c77579
protanopia
#828279 · ΔE00 25.9
deuteranopia
#939376 · ΔE00 29.6
tritanopia
#a4a400 · ΔE00 44.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Dazzle at ΔE00 0.94: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink DazzleΔE00 0.94 · #c97376
- Brandied ApricotΔE00 1.335 · #c27275
- Cranberry PieΔE00 1.339 · #c27277
- Trout PoutΔE00 1.622 · #cb7077
- Deep BloomΔE00 1.739 · #c57776
- Dirty PinkΔE00 1.855 · #ca7b80
- Begonia RoseΔE00 1.958 · #c3797f
- Cinnamon RollΔE00 2.006 · #c0737a
- Art House PinkΔE00 2.491 · #c06f70
- Lotus RedΔE00 2.502 · #d1717b
- Playful PinkΔE00 2.559 · #c46c73
- Impatient HeartΔE00 2.687 · #c47d7c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.