Preppy Rose
#d1668f
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d1668f
RGB
209, 102, 143
OKLCh
64.9% 0.142 357.6°
CIELAB (D50)
57.4, 46.3, -1.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.1; on black, Lc -39.6. 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 25.0 and 27.0 and 56.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.50:1 — large text only
Black text
6.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bc537c 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
#d1668f
protanopia
#79798f · ΔE00 25.0
deuteranopia
#90908c · ΔE00 27.0
tritanopia
#a6a600 · ΔE00 56.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHopbush at ΔE00 1.805: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- HopbushΔE00 1.805 · #cd6d93
- Ibis RoseΔE00 2.191 · #ca628f
- Flirty RoseΔE00 2.348 · #d65e93
- GroovyΔE00 2.399 · #de6491
- Old GeraniumΔE00 2.524 · #c66787
- Fiesta PinkΔE00 2.777 · #d47194
- Paris PinkΔE00 2.857 · #da6d91
- Silk RibbonΔE00 2.878 · #c86e8b
- Fuchsia KissΔE00 2.914 · #cb6e98
- Rhine WineΔE00 3.273 · #c87291
- Cosmetologist’s PinkΔE00 3.371 · #dd669d
- Nocturnal RoseΔE00 3.391 · #cc6699
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.