Rose Haze
#ecc5c0
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
#ecc5c0
RGB
236, 197, 192
OKLCh
85.6% 0.045 26.6°
CIELAB (D50)
82.9, 13.7, 8.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.3; on black, Lc -76.8. 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 17.0 and 19.1 and 35.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.58:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#916e6a 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
#ecc5c0
protanopia
#cacac0 · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#d1d1bf · ΔE00 19.1
tritanopia
#d9d900 · ΔE00 35.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGentle Kiss at ΔE00 0.241: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Gentle KissΔE00 0.241 · #ebc4bf
- Snow PinkΔE00 0.762 · #ebc6c0
- CongoΔE00 0.825 · #e8c3be
- Strawberry RisottoΔE00 0.87 · #eec6bf
- Crystal PinkΔE00 0.884 · #e8c3bf
- Delicate Pink RoseΔE00 0.938 · #eec6c3
- FriendsΔE00 1.22 · #e8c5c1
- Rosy GlowΔE00 1.268 · #e7c0bc
- Rose PetalΔE00 1.326 · #e6c1bb
- Sonia RoseΔE00 1.454 · #f3c8c2
- Empire RoseΔE00 1.514 · #e7c5c1
- First PeachΔE00 1.66 · #f4cac6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.