Liaison
#8c3f52
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8c3f52
RGB
140, 63, 82
OKLCh
47.4% 0.106 6.5°
CIELAB (D50)
37.7, 34.9, 5.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.3; on black, Lc -17.7. 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 23.1 and 28.8 and 43.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.95:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8c3f52
protanopia
#4d4d52 · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#5e5e50 · ΔE00 28.8
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 43.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isUmemurasaki Purple at ΔE00 0.888: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Umemurasaki PurpleΔE00 0.888 · #8f4155
- Dark EarthΔE00 1.734 · #884455
- Ancient MagentaΔE00 2.004 · #953d55
- Raspberry PuddingΔE00 2.321 · #94435a
- Sugar BeetΔE00 2.363 · #834253
- Dull MagentaΔE00 2.493 · #8d4856
- Algae RedΔE00 2.643 · #983d53
- CamelotΔE00 2.844 · #803a4b
- That’s My JamΔE00 3.03 · #8e3350
- Burnt RussetΔE00 3.236 · #853c47
- Quinacridone MagentaΔE00 3.389 · #8e3a59
- LusciousΔE00 3.523 · #903d49
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.