Island Coral
#d8877a
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d8877a
RGB
216, 135, 122
OKLCh
70.5% 0.102 29.7°
CIELAB (D50)
64.8, 30.8, 20.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 52.8; on black, Lc -49.1. 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 26.4 and 28.5 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.74:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ae6156 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
#d8877a
protanopia
#93937b · ΔE00 26.4
deuteranopia
#a4a477 · ΔE00 28.5
tritanopia
#b5b500 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndian Sunset at ΔE00 0.8: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Indian SunsetΔE00 0.8 · #d98a7d
- Graceful BallerinaΔE00 1.021 · #dd897c
- My PinkΔE00 1.489 · #d68b80
- Pink PapayaΔE00 1.556 · #d5877e
- Love SceptreΔE00 1.643 · #dd8877
- Mellow CoralΔE00 1.709 · #e0897e
- New York PinkΔE00 1.732 · #dd8374
- FrecklesΔE00 1.765 · #d78775
- Lobster BisqueΔE00 1.951 · #db8981
- ZanciΔE00 2.205 · #d38977
- Watermelon PunchΔE00 2.301 · #e08880
- Coral HazeΔE00 2.363 · #e28980
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.