Xoxo
#f08497
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f08497
RGB
240, 132, 151
OKLCh
73.6% 0.133 9.7°
CIELAB (D50)
67.9, 43.6, 9.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 48.5; on black, Lc -53.5. 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 24.9 and 32.3 and 52.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.48:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bc566a 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
#f08497
protanopia
#959598 · ΔE00 24.9
deuteranopia
#adad94 · ΔE00 32.3
tritanopia
#c3c300 · ΔE00 52.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPosy Petal at ΔE00 1.099: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Posy PetalΔE00 1.099 · #f3879c
- Strawberry SoapΔE00 1.375 · #f7879a
- Melon MistΔE00 1.67 · #e88092
- CarissimaΔE00 2.192 · #e68095
- Wonder LustΔE00 2.35 · #ef8e9f
- Iced BerryΔE00 2.493 · #e9819a
- So CharmingΔE00 2.554 · #ec7a93
- PeonyΔE00 2.756 · #eb8f9d
- DollieΔE00 2.804 · #f590a0
- DimpleΔE00 2.886 · #e9808b
- Rose SoireeΔE00 2.946 · #e08395
- Bella PinkΔE00 3.04 · #e08194
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.