Prosciutto
#e0b4a4
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#e0b4a4
RGB
224, 180, 164
OKLCh
80.5% 0.056 40.9°
CIELAB (D50)
77.0, 14.7, 14.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.3; on black, Lc -67.2. 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 19.4 and 20.5 and 31.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966e5f 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
#e0b4a4
protanopia
#babaa4 · ΔE00 19.4
deuteranopia
#c2c2a3 · ΔE00 20.5
tritanopia
#cbcb00 · ΔE00 31.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTerra Cotta Blush at ΔE00 0.633: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Terra Cotta BlushΔE00 0.633 · #e2b5a6
- Smoky SalmonΔE00 0.666 · #e2b6a7
- Fall LeafΔE00 1.183 · #e5b7a5
- Angel BreathΔE00 1.281 · #dcaf9f
- Cinnamon WhipΔE00 1.406 · #dab2a4
- TofinoΔE00 1.565 · #e6baa9
- EmbraceΔE00 1.616 · #e8b8a7
- Rose CloudΔE00 1.63 · #dab09e
- Black-Eyed PeachΔE00 1.653 · #e5b6a2
- Salmon GreyΔE00 1.802 · #e3b6aa
- Montezuma’s CastleΔE00 1.87 · #d9ad9e
- SuntanΔE00 1.901 · #d9b19f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.