Bloodthirsty Beige
#f8d7d0
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
#f8d7d0
RGB
248, 215, 208
OKLCh
90.5% 0.038 32.0°
CIELAB (D50)
88.7, 11.0, 7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 23 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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.9; on black, Lc -86.7. 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 15.0 and 16.6 and 34.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.62:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.62:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d706a 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
#f8d7d0
protanopia
#dbdbd0 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#e1e1cf · ΔE00 16.6
tritanopia
#e8e800 · ΔE00 34.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBunny Ears at ΔE00 0.511: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bunny EarsΔE00 0.511 · #f9d9d2
- PippinΔE00 1.205 · #fcdbd2
- Strawberry WhipΔE00 1.235 · #f9d7cd
- Peach SchnappsΔE00 1.451 · #ffdcd6
- Pink LotusΔE00 1.571 · #fadbd7
- Comical CoralΔE00 1.587 · #f3d1c8
- Creole PinkΔE00 1.59 · #f5d6cc
- Pale ShrimpΔE00 1.598 · #f8dbd6
- Scarlet ButterΔE00 1.661 · #f8d6cb
- Pink CloudΔE00 1.68 · #f5d1c8
- Fluffy PinkΔE00 1.713 · #f7d6cb
- Texas RoseΔE00 1.714 · #f1d2c9
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.