HueComb

Peach Fuzz

#ffc7b9

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

#ffc7b9

RGB

255, 199, 185

OKLCh

87.6% 0.067 34.4°

CIELAB (D50)

85.1, 19.1, 15.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.9; on black, Lc -80.4. 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 22.1 and 23.5 and 36.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.49:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.12:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.12:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9c6b5e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#ffc7b9

protanopia

#ceceb9 · ΔE00 22.1

deuteranopia

#d9d9b7 · ΔE00 23.5

tritanopia

#e5e500 · ΔE00 36.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSalmon Peach at ΔE00 0.903: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Salmon PeachΔE00 0.903 · #fdc5b5
  • Salmon BeautyΔE00 1.202 · #fbc6b6
  • Ballet SkirtΔE00 1.526 · #ffc5b3
  • Ending DawnΔE00 1.53 · #fcc9b9
  • Coral BellsΔE00 1.603 · #fbc5bb
  • Tropical PeachΔE00 1.622 · #ffc4b2
  • Apricot ObsessionΔE00 1.627 · #f8c4b4
  • Your PinkΔE00 1.649 · #ffc5bb
  • Ruffled ParasolΔE00 1.799 · #fbc0b4
  • Sherbet FruitΔE00 1.888 · #f8c8bb
  • Piggy BankΔE00 1.982 · #ffccbb
  • Serene PinkΔE00 1.989 · #f6c6b9

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.