Strawberry Latte
#d2adb5
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
#d2adb5
RGB
210, 173, 181
OKLCh
78.3% 0.044 3.6°
CIELAB (D50)
74.3, 14.8, 1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 33% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.3; on black, Lc -63.1. 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 14.5 and 16.7 and 40.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.02:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.38:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.38:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#906e75 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
#d2adb5
protanopia
#b2b2b5 · ΔE00 14.5
deuteranopia
#b9b9b4 · ΔE00 16.7
tritanopia
#c0c000 · ΔE00 40.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugarplum Dance at ΔE00 0.891: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sugarplum DanceΔE00 0.891 · #d1abb5
- Iced WatermelonΔE00 0.97 · #d1afb7
- Ballet RoseΔE00 1.599 · #d3adb1
- FlossΔE00 1.703 · #d7b3b9
- Rosy AuraΔE00 1.74 · #d8b3b9
- PentalonΔE00 2.041 · #dbb2bc
- Pale LilacΔE00 2.269 · #d8b5bf
- Dutchess DawnΔE00 2.347 · #c9a7ac
- Izmir PinkΔE00 2.403 · #ceb0b5
- MauvelousΔE00 2.547 · #d6b3c0
- Pink PotionΔE00 2.556 · #ceaebb
- Strawberry GlazeΔE00 2.593 · #dab7be
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.