Prehistoric Pink
#c3738d
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c3738d
RGB
195, 115, 141
OKLCh
65.0% 0.105 359.5°
CIELAB (D50)
58.1, 34.6, 0.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.4; on black, Lc -40.3. 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 22.4 and 25.9 and 50.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.41:1 — large text only
Black text
6.16:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.16:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac5f79 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
#c3738d
protanopia
#7f7f8d · ΔE00 22.4
deuteranopia
#90908b · ΔE00 25.9
tritanopia
#a1a100 · ΔE00 50.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWatermelon Pink at ΔE00 1.126: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Watermelon PinkΔE00 1.126 · #c77690
- Rhine WineΔE00 1.417 · #c87291
- Silk RibbonΔE00 1.668 · #c86e8b
- Strawberry SurpriseΔE00 2.305 · #b9758d
- Devilish DivaΔE00 2.559 · #ce7790
- Mauve SeductressΔE00 2.799 · #bb7788
- GlamΔE00 2.902 · #cf748c
- Smell the RosesΔE00 2.944 · #bb7283
- Pink GarnetΔE00 3.057 · #d2738f
- Wild RoseΔE00 3.066 · #cb7d96
- HopbushΔE00 3.096 · #cd6d93
- Muted PinkΔE00 3.132 · #d1768f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.