Rosetti
#cf929a
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cf929a
RGB
207, 146, 154
OKLCh
72.2% 0.074 10.4°
CIELAB (D50)
66.9, 24.5, 5.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 49.9; on black, Lc -52.1. 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 20.2 and 25.3 and 43.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.55:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a0676f 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
#cf929a
protanopia
#9a9a9a · ΔE00 20.2
deuteranopia
#a7a798 · ΔE00 25.3
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 43.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBridal Rose at ΔE00 0.592: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bridal RoseΔE00 0.592 · #d1949c
- Ducal PinkΔE00 0.996 · #ce9096
- Garnet ShadowΔE00 1.741 · #c89095
- Greyish PinkΔE00 1.769 · #c88d94
- Madagascar PinkΔE00 1.927 · #d194a1
- Sianna RoseΔE00 2.014 · #cf8d9a
- Parrot PinkΔE00 2.231 · #d998a0
- Dogwood BloomΔE00 2.297 · #c58f94
- Solid PinkΔE00 2.31 · #c78b95
- Cooing DovesΔE00 2.658 · #cd98a3
- Fruit CocktailΔE00 2.747 · #d08995
- Sugar ToothΔE00 2.874 · #d68f9f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.