Sun-Kissed Beach
#deab9b
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
#deab9b
RGB
222, 171, 155
OKLCh
78.4% 0.064 38.1°
CIELAB (D50)
74.5, 17.6, 15.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.1; on black, Lc -63.2. 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 21.3 and 22.4 and 33.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.02:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6c5d 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
#deab9b
protanopia
#b2b29b · ΔE00 21.3
deuteranopia
#bcbc99 · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#c6c600 · ΔE00 33.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPerrigloss Tan at ΔE00 0.481: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Perrigloss TanΔE00 0.481 · #ddaa99
- Tamanegi PeelΔE00 0.53 · #deaa9b
- Shy TimeΔE00 1.02 · #ddac9a
- CedarvilleΔE00 1.08 · #dda896
- Cottage RoseΔE00 1.227 · #d9a89a
- Kitten’s PawΔE00 1.407 · #daa89b
- Angel BreathΔE00 1.698 · #dcaf9f
- Montezuma’s CastleΔE00 1.776 · #d9ad9e
- Conch PinkΔE00 2.076 · #dba496
- Auburn WaveΔE00 2.138 · #d8a394
- Everything’s RosyΔE00 2.144 · #d8aca0
- Pelican PinkΔE00 2.173 · #e2a695
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.