Dark Pink
#cb416b
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cb416b
RGB
203, 65, 107
OKLCh
58.3% 0.176 6.0°
CIELAB (D50)
49.5, 57.3, 8.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.3; on black, Lc -30.3. 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 28.1 and 36.0 and 56.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.51:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cb416b
protanopia
#5f5f6c · ΔE00 28.1
deuteranopia
#7f7f67 · ΔE00 36.0
tritanopia
#9a9a00 · ΔE00 56.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaspberry Sorbet at ΔE00 1.465: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Raspberry SorbetΔE00 1.465 · #d2386c
- Raspberry JamΔE00 1.762 · #ca3767
- Royal BannerΔE00 1.82 · #c74767
- Qermez RedΔE00 1.926 · #cf3c71
- Paper HeartsΔE00 2.026 · #cc4466
- Spicy BerryΔE00 2.116 · #cc3366
- Vibrant RedΔE00 2.264 · #c24c6a
- Pink PunchΔE00 2.347 · #d04a70
- Rubber BandΔE00 2.621 · #ce4676
- Fruit DoveΔE00 2.632 · #ca4f70
- Love LordΔE00 2.633 · #c54673
- Self-LoveΔE00 3.097 · #d22b6d
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.