HueComb

First Love

#cf758a

A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#cf758a

RGB

207, 117, 138

OKLCh

66.7% 0.115 5.7°

CIELAB (D50)

60.0, 37.8, 4.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.9; on black, Lc -42.8. 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 23.7 and 29.4 and 50.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.20:1 — large text only

Black text

6.56:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.56:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b35c71 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cf758a

protanopia

#83838a · ΔE00 23.7

deuteranopia

#979787 · ΔE00 29.4

tritanopia

#a9a900 · ΔE00 50.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRazzberries at ΔE00 0.537: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.