Borlotti Bean
#d9b1aa
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
#d9b1aa
RGB
217, 177, 170
OKLCh
79.4% 0.048 29.7°
CIELAB (D50)
75.7, 14.2, 9.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.2; on black, Lc -65.2. 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 17.8 and 19.8 and 34.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.94:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#936e68 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
#d9b1aa
protanopia
#b6b6aa · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#bebea9 · ΔE00 19.8
tritanopia
#c6c600 · ΔE00 34.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEvening Sand at ΔE00 0.901: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Evening SandΔE00 0.901 · #ddb3ab
- Mesa PinkΔE00 1.3 · #ddb1a8
- Tea RoomΔE00 1.327 · #dcb5b0
- VictorianaΔE00 1.358 · #d6b2ad
- Princess PinkΔE00 1.585 · #dfb5b0
- Cavern PinkΔE00 1.817 · #e0b8b1
- Peach WhipΔE00 2.039 · #d8b6b0
- Stormy PinkΔE00 2.136 · #e3b5ad
- Gracious RoseΔE00 2.179 · #e3b7b1
- SandpaperΔE00 2.277 · #d7b1a5
- Cherry TreeΔE00 2.314 · #dfb7b4
- Castilian PinkΔE00 2.422 · #d4b3aa
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.