Wax Flower
#eeb39e
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
#eeb39e
RGB
238, 179, 158
OKLCh
81.6% 0.075 40.5°
CIELAB (D50)
78.1, 20.1, 19.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.7; on black, Lc -68.9. 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 22.3 and 23.0 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9f6a57 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
#eeb39e
protanopia
#bbbb9e · ΔE00 22.3
deuteranopia
#c7c79c · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#d3d300 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPretty in Peach at ΔE00 1.136: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pretty in PeachΔE00 1.136 · #e9af9b
- Stucco WallΔE00 1.22 · #f1b19d
- Salmon RunΔE00 1.334 · #edaf9c
- Antique CameoΔE00 1.932 · #f0baa4
- JovialΔE00 1.957 · #eeb9a7
- Sweet MarmaladeΔE00 2.015 · #ebaf95
- Sweet ShebaΔE00 2.306 · #f0b9a9
- Pale TerraΔE00 2.317 · #eaaa96
- Pink AbaloneΔE00 2.408 · #e9b8a4
- Shishi PinkΔE00 2.469 · #efab93
- Crab BisqueΔE00 2.475 · #f0b599
- Ageless BeautyΔE00 2.514 · #e7a995
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.