Muted Clay
#cf8a78
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cf8a78
RGB
207, 138, 120
OKLCh
69.9% 0.089 35.3°
CIELAB (D50)
64.4, 25.6, 21.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.4; on black, Lc -48.4. 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 24.6 and 25.7 and 35.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a76655 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
#cf8a78
protanopia
#949478 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#a2a276 · ΔE00 25.7
tritanopia
#b0b000 · ΔE00 35.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGinger Whisper at ΔE00 0.788: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ginger WhisperΔE00 0.788 · #cc8877
- CopperleafΔE00 0.908 · #cf8874
- ZanciΔE00 0.974 · #d38977
- Rosy CopperΔE00 1.095 · #cf8974
- SociableΔE00 1.571 · #cf8c76
- Constant CoralΔE00 1.733 · #cd8e7f
- Orange EssentialΔE00 1.837 · #d1907c
- Vintage CoralΔE00 1.857 · #d68c76
- FrecklesΔE00 2.06 · #d78775
- Fireplace GlowΔE00 2.113 · #d08b73
- Ginger ScentΔE00 2.23 · #cb8f7b
- Yum Raw SpamΔE00 2.269 · #c58a78
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.