Moonlight Mauve
#ca83a7
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ca83a7
RGB
202, 131, 167
OKLCh
69.4% 0.098 348.2°
CIELAB (D50)
63.1, 31.9, -7.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.7; on black, Lc -47.1. 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 20.1 and 20.9 and 53.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.87:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.32:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a56185 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
#ca83a7
protanopia
#8d8da7 · ΔE00 20.1
deuteranopia
#9c9ca5 · ΔE00 20.9
tritanopia
#abab00 · ΔE00 53.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIce Plant at ΔE00 2.631: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Ice PlantΔE00 2.631 · #cf7ead
- Heirloom RoseΔE00 3.015 · #d182a0
- Berry TwistΔE00 3.176 · #d78bad
- Bossy-Pants PinkΔE00 3.181 · #cb8eb1
- Moonlit MauveΔE00 3.339 · #d28fb0
- RosyΔE00 3.519 · #be89a8
- High MaintenanceΔE00 3.522 · #d88cb5
- HeartbreakerΔE00 3.549 · #cc76a3
- Springtime BloomΔE00 3.555 · #db88ac
- KissΔE00 3.613 · #d28ca7
- Bonny BelleΔE00 3.62 · #c58eab
- Pinch MeΔE00 3.671 · #c88ca4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.