York Pink
#d7837f
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d7837f
RGB
215, 131, 127
OKLCh
69.8% 0.104 23.0°
CIELAB (D50)
63.9, 32.8, 16.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.0; on black, Lc -47.9. 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 26.8 and 29.5 and 42.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b0605d 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
#d7837f
protanopia
#909080 · ΔE00 26.8
deuteranopia
#a2a27c · ΔE00 29.5
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 42.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Damask at ΔE00 0.678: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink DamaskΔE00 0.678 · #d98580
- Salmon PateΔE00 0.802 · #d5847e
- Sea PinkΔE00 0.987 · #db817e
- CranappleΔE00 1.747 · #db8079
- Peaches of ImmortalityΔE00 1.933 · #d98586
- Raspberry RippleΔE00 1.983 · #cd827d
- Pink PapayaΔE00 1.997 · #d5877e
- Lobster BisqueΔE00 2.057 · #db8981
- Coral GardenΔE00 2.106 · #cf8179
- CopperfieldΔE00 2.113 · #da8a88
- Finest BlushΔE00 2.215 · #dd8888
- Coral BanksΔE00 2.371 · #da8c87
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.