Ginger Scent
#cb8f7b
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
#cb8f7b
RGB
203, 143, 123
OKLCh
70.4% 0.079 39.2°
CIELAB (D50)
65.1, 21.6, 20.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.4; on black, Lc -49.5. 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 23.0 and 23.6 and 33.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.75:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.75:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a26956 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
#cb8f7b
protanopia
#97977b · ΔE00 23.0
deuteranopia
#a4a479 · ΔE00 23.6
tritanopia
#b0b000 · ΔE00 33.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrange Essential at ΔE00 1.292: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Orange EssentialΔE00 1.292 · #d1907c
- Simmering RidgeΔE00 1.399 · #cb9281
- Tint of EarthΔE00 1.418 · #ce9480
- Black Hills GoldΔE00 1.459 · #c89180
- SociableΔE00 1.565 · #cf8c76
- Yum Raw SpamΔE00 1.749 · #c58a78
- Constant CoralΔE00 2.051 · #cd8e7f
- Fireplace GlowΔE00 2.196 · #d08b73
- Muted ClayΔE00 2.23 · #cf8a78
- Rosy CopperΔE00 2.281 · #cf8974
- Rosy QueenΔE00 2.283 · #cf9384
- African BubingaΔE00 2.452 · #c7927a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.