Rosewood Dreams
#ebbeb5
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
#ebbeb5
RGB
235, 190, 181
OKLCh
83.9% 0.053 31.3°
CIELAB (D50)
80.8, 15.6, 11.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.4; on black, Lc -73.4. 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 19.3 and 21.3 and 35.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.67:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966d65 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
#ebbeb5
protanopia
#c4c4b5 · ΔE00 19.3
deuteranopia
#cdcdb4 · ΔE00 21.3
tritanopia
#d6d600 · ΔE00 35.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Fog at ΔE00 0.856: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rose FogΔE00 0.856 · #e7bcb4
- Peach SouffleΔE00 0.888 · #ecbcb2
- Sweet SherryΔE00 1.364 · #eebdb6
- Positively PinkΔE00 1.375 · #e7bfb6
- New ClayΔE00 1.39 · #efc1b5
- Peach AshΔE00 1.456 · #efc4bb
- Rachel PinkΔE00 1.464 · #e8b9ae
- Noble BlushΔE00 1.486 · #e8b9b2
- Chintz RoseΔE00 1.513 · #ecbcb6
- Virgin PeachΔE00 1.598 · #ecbdb0
- Salmon GlowΔE00 1.61 · #ebb9af
- Bridal BouquetΔE00 1.646 · #ebbdb8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.