Young at Heart
#d5a1a9
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
#d5a1a9
RGB
213, 161, 169
OKLCh
76.0% 0.063 8.4°
CIELAB (D50)
71.4, 20.7, 3.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 43.5; on black, Lc -58.7. 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 18.2 and 22.4 and 42.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.21:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.50:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.50:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6a72 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
#d5a1a9
protanopia
#a8a8a9 · ΔE00 18.2
deuteranopia
#b2b2a8 · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#bdbd00 · ΔE00 42.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSilver Rose at ΔE00 0.845: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Silver RoseΔE00 0.845 · #d29ea6
- Pink IceΔE00 1.566 · #cf9fa9
- Foxy LadyΔE00 1.607 · #d5a6ad
- PromΔE00 1.619 · #daa5aa
- Rosewood ApricotΔE00 1.767 · #d39ea2
- Edwardian RoseΔE00 1.943 · #cc9da4
- Rosetti PinkΔE00 2.021 · #d8a2a5
- GlamourΔE00 2.234 · #db9da7
- Birthday CandleΔE00 2.261 · #cfa2ad
- Lady FlowerΔE00 2.313 · #d0a4ae
- Lili Elbe’s PinkΔE00 2.557 · #d4a1b0
- Whisper of RoseΔE00 2.563 · #cda2ac
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.