Muted Pink

#d1768f

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

Hex

#d1768f

RGB

209, 118, 143

OKLCh

67.3% 0.117 3.1°

CIELAB (D50)

60.6, 38.5, 2.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.1; on black, Lc -43.6. 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 23.6 and 28.7 and 51.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.13:1 — large text only

Black text

6.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b35b74 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

#d1768f

protanopia

#84848f · ΔE00 23.6

deuteranopia

#98988d · ΔE00 28.7

tritanopia

#abab00 · ΔE00 51.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMinuette at ΔE00 0.648: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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