Parfait
#c8a6a1
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
#c8a6a1
RGB
200, 166, 161
OKLCh
75.4% 0.041 27.9°
CIELAB (D50)
71.1, 12.3, 7.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 28% 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 43.9; on black, Lc -58.3. 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 15.8 and 17.7 and 33.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f6f6b 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
#c8a6a1
protanopia
#aaaaa1 · ΔE00 15.8
deuteranopia
#b1b1a0 · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#b8b800 · ΔE00 33.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Potpourri at ΔE00 0.73: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rose PotpourriΔE00 0.73 · #c9a59f
- Sable CloakedΔE00 1.757 · #c4a7a1
- Rosy TanΔE00 1.979 · #c8aba7
- LovebugΔE00 2.091 · #c8aba8
- Pale MauveΔE00 2.183 · #c6a4a4
- EunryΔE00 2.297 · #cda59c
- Teatime MauveΔE00 2.404 · #c8a89e
- VistaΔE00 2.456 · #cbacab
- Pinkish GreyΔE00 2.463 · #c8aca9
- Lychee BerryΔE00 2.468 · #c3a5a5
- Andes AshΔE00 2.602 · #c1a097
- Foggy QuartzΔE00 2.662 · #bfa2a1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.