Peach Bud
#fdb2ab
A red that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fdb2ab
RGB
253, 178, 171
OKLCh
83.3% 0.089 25.1°
CIELAB (D50)
79.8, 27.5, 15.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.2; on black, Lc -71.5. 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 25.4 and 27.5 and 42.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.73:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a8645f 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
#fdb2ab
protanopia
#bcbcab · ΔE00 25.4
deuteranopia
#cccca9 · ΔE00 27.5
tritanopia
#dbdb00 · ΔE00 42.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSnow White Blush at ΔE00 1.01: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Snow White BlushΔE00 1.01 · #f8afa9
- Cornflower LilacΔE00 1.23 · #ffb0ac
- Apricot BlushΔE00 1.36 · #feaea5
- Sango PinkΔE00 1.488 · #f5b1aa
- Mexican MilkΔE00 1.669 · #ffb9b2
- Washed-Out CrimsonΔE00 1.801 · #ffb3a7
- Wildflower BouquetΔE00 1.824 · #ffb3b1
- Riviera RoseΔE00 1.827 · #f7b1a6
- Patient PinkΔE00 1.92 · #ffaba5
- Amber TideΔE00 2.066 · #ffafa3
- Young SalmonΔE00 2.101 · #ffb6b4
- Fancy FlamingoΔE00 2.137 · #ffb1b0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.