Lipstick
#c95b83
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c95b83
RGB
201, 91, 131
OKLCh
61.8% 0.146 359.4°
CIELAB (D50)
53.9, 47.6, 0.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.4; on black, Lc -35.3. 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 25.5 and 28.7 and 55.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.96:1 — large text only
Black text
5.31:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.31:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#be517a 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
#c95b83
protanopia
#6f6f84 · ΔE00 25.5
deuteranopia
#888880 · ΔE00 28.7
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 55.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPanama Rose at ΔE00 1.719: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Panama RoseΔE00 1.719 · #c6577c
- Pretty in PlumΔE00 2.194 · #cc5588
- Pink FlambéΔE00 2.733 · #cd4e82
- Middle SafflowerΔE00 2.738 · #c85179
- Fat SmoochΔE00 2.82 · #c1537d
- Old GeraniumΔE00 2.841 · #c66787
- Ibis RoseΔE00 2.914 · #ca628f
- Tutti FruttiΔE00 2.992 · #bc587b
- Cinnamon SatinΔE00 3.048 · #cd607e
- Beauty QueenΔE00 3.068 · #be5c87
- Cherry PinkΔE00 3.18 · #c7607b
- Ballerina TutuΔE00 3.258 · #c8647f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.