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#cd5c51
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cd5c51
RGB
205, 92, 81
OKLCh
61.3% 0.146 27.7°
CIELAB (D50)
53.8, 45.2, 29.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.7; on black, Lc -34.9. 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 31.5 and 35.7 and 44.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.00:1 — large text only
Black text
5.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c35349 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
#cd5c51
protanopia
#717152 · ΔE00 31.5
deuteranopia
#8a8a4b · ΔE00 35.7
tritanopia
#a1a100 · ΔE00 44.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWet Coral at ΔE00 1.256: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wet CoralΔE00 1.256 · #d1584c
- ValenciaΔE00 1.507 · #d4574e
- SungloΔE00 1.536 · #c76155
- Japanese KimonoΔE00 1.745 · #cc6358
- Dark SalmonΔE00 1.746 · #c85a53
- Quite CoralΔE00 1.905 · #c76356
- Cedar ChestΔE00 2.18 · #c95a49
- Desert CoralΔE00 2.264 · #d16459
- CapocolloΔE00 2.455 · #d9544d
- Ginger FlowerΔE00 2.479 · #cf524e
- BarbecueΔE00 2.5 · #c26157
- Rosy SunsetΔE00 2.647 · #d95854
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.