HueComb

Blush d’Amour

#de5d83

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

Hex

#de5d83

RGB

222, 93, 131

OKLCh

65.1% 0.164 4.5°

CIELAB (D50)

57.5, 53.8, 5.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.9; on black, Lc -39.8. 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 27.1 and 33.8 and 57.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.50:1 — large text only

Black text

6.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c84971 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

#de5d83

protanopia

#757584 · ΔE00 27.1

deuteranopia

#93937f · ΔE00 33.8

tritanopia

#adad00 · ΔE00 57.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHint of Cherry at ΔE00 1.253: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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