Pinking. Fast and Slow
#df7ba4
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#df7ba4
RGB
223, 123, 164
OKLCh
70.5% 0.132 355.0°
CIELAB (D50)
64.1, 43.1, -3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.5; on black, Lc -48.3. 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 23.8 and 24.2 and 57.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.80:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.51:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.51:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b75780 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
#df7ba4
protanopia
#8b8ba4 · ΔE00 23.8
deuteranopia
#a1a1a2 · ΔE00 24.2
tritanopia
#b5b500 · ΔE00 57.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReal Raspberry at ΔE00 0.606: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Real RaspberryΔE00 0.606 · #dd79a2
- Wild OrchidΔE00 1.25 · #d979a2
- Mangala PinkΔE00 2.302 · #e781a6
- Aurora PinkΔE00 2.462 · #e881a6
- Chinese PinkΔE00 2.633 · #de70a1
- Sweet ChrysanthemumΔE00 2.688 · #dd84a3
- Thulian PinkΔE00 2.817 · #df6fa1
- Liseran PurpleΔE00 2.879 · #de6fa1
- China PinkΔE00 3.059 · #df6ea1
- Little Bow PinkΔE00 3.152 · #d37c99
- Rose GloryΔE00 3.19 · #e585a5
- HopeΔE00 3.211 · #e581a0
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.