HueComb

Kiss Me More

#de6b86

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

Hex

#de6b86

RGB

222, 107, 134

OKLCh

67.1% 0.145 7.0°

CIELAB (D50)

60.1, 47.7, 7.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.8; on black, Lc -43.0. 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 25.7 and 32.9 and 54.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.20:1 — large text only

Black text

6.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c1516d 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

#de6b86

protanopia

#7f7f87 · ΔE00 25.7

deuteranopia

#999983 · ΔE00 32.9

tritanopia

#b0b000 · ΔE00 54.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLuminous Pink at ΔE00 0.723: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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