Pink Punk
#d983bd
A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d983bd
RGB
217, 131, 189
OKLCh
71.9% 0.128 340.2°
CIELAB (D50)
65.6, 39.8, -15.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 51.3; on black, Lc -50.6. 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 21.1 and 20.4 and 60.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac5b93 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
#d983bd
protanopia
#9090bd · ΔE00 21.1
deuteranopia
#a2a2bb · ΔE00 20.4
tritanopia
#b4b400 · ΔE00 60.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCyclamen at ΔE00 1.517: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CyclamenΔE00 1.517 · #d687ba
- Middle PurpleΔE00 1.953 · #d982b5
- Peruvian LilyΔE00 2.64 · #cd7db5
- Fuchsia BlushΔE00 2.984 · #e47cb8
- Ice PlantΔE00 3.332 · #cf7ead
- Blushed BombshellΔE00 3.945 · #ee88cc
- High MaintenanceΔE00 3.977 · #d88cb5
- Firm PinkΔE00 4.147 · #da93c1
- Pressed FlowerΔE00 4.351 · #d492bd
- Tempting PinkΔE00 4.392 · #dd8cb5
- Rock Star PinkΔE00 4.755 · #c58bba
- Sky MagentaΔE00 4.769 · #cf71af
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.