Cabaret
#cd526c
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cd526c
RGB
205, 82, 108
OKLCh
60.6% 0.157 10.1°
CIELAB (D50)
52.4, 51.2, 11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 68.1; on black, Lc -33.5. 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 26.5 and 35.4 and 53.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.18:1 — large text only
Black text
5.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c74c67 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
#cd526c
protanopia
#6a6a6d · ΔE00 26.5
deuteranopia
#868668 · ΔE00 35.4
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 53.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Moon at ΔE00 1.046: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Strawberry MoonΔE00 1.046 · #cf5570
- Eros PinkΔE00 1.43 · #c84f68
- Tropical SmoothieΔE00 1.616 · #c5556d
- Rapture RoseΔE00 1.933 · #cf5a70
- California WineΔE00 1.972 · #ca4b65
- Imayou PinkΔE00 1.979 · #d0576b
- Kenny’s KissΔE00 2.196 · #d45871
- Fruit DoveΔE00 2.201 · #ca4f70
- Mon Cher AmiΔE00 2.326 · #c45971
- Ripe CherryΔE00 2.351 · #c3556f
- Pink PunchΔE00 2.486 · #d04a70
- Claret RedΔE00 2.792 · #c84c61
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.