Exotic Lilac
#d198b5
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
#d198b5
RGB
209, 152, 181
OKLCh
74.3% 0.078 347.2°
CIELAB (D50)
69.1, 25.3, -6.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.6; on black, Lc -55.5. 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 18.1 and 19.0 and 50.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.37:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6782 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
#d198b5
protanopia
#a0a0b5 · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#ababb4 · ΔE00 19.0
tritanopia
#b7b700 · ΔE00 50.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Perfume at ΔE00 0.885: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sweet PerfumeΔE00 0.885 · #d49ab9
- Morning Glory PinkΔE00 2.061 · #ca99b7
- Pink BegoniaΔE00 2.445 · #dd9cbd
- Peach BuffΔE00 2.476 · #cc99bb
- Soft MatteΔE00 2.5 · #dd99bb
- Haute PinkΔE00 2.542 · #d899b1
- Moonlit MauveΔE00 2.627 · #d28fb0
- Soft FuchsiaΔE00 2.686 · #d496bd
- Lady’s Cushions PinkΔE00 2.962 · #c99bb0
- Bossy-Pants PinkΔE00 2.995 · #cb8eb1
- Techno PinkΔE00 3.011 · #dd95b4
- Quilted HeartΔE00 3.028 · #ce9fb4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.