La Vie en Rose
#d2a5a3
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
#d2a5a3
RGB
210, 165, 163
OKLCh
76.3% 0.053 21.3°
CIELAB (D50)
71.9, 16.9, 7.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% 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 42.8; on black, Lc -59.4. 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 18.8 and 21.5 and 36.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966c6b 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
#d2a5a3
protanopia
#ababa3 · ΔE00 18.8
deuteranopia
#b4b4a2 · ΔE00 21.5
tritanopia
#bdbd00 · ΔE00 36.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRuby Eye at ΔE00 0.817: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ruby EyeΔE00 0.817 · #d0a2a0
- Sakura MochiΔE00 1.124 · #cea19f
- Rose PotteryΔE00 1.17 · #d0a29e
- Pink Cocoa CupcakeΔE00 1.227 · #d1a5a6
- Baby JaneΔE00 1.67 · #d0a7a8
- Silver PinkΔE00 1.695 · #d9a8a8
- Lady GuinevereΔE00 1.802 · #caa09e
- Mellow RoseΔE00 2.013 · #d9a6a1
- Evening DressΔE00 2.028 · #d1a19b
- RemembranceΔE00 2.068 · #ca9e9c
- Raffia CreamΔE00 2.195 · #cda09a
- Gilman RoseΔE00 2.38 · #cd9d99
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.