Prism Pink
#f0a1bf
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f0a1bf
RGB
240, 161, 191
OKLCh
79.5% 0.100 355.2°
CIELAB (D50)
74.9, 33.2, -2.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.3; on black, Lc -64.1. 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 21.4 and 22.5 and 54.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.99:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.56:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.56:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a9607d 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
#f0a1bf
protanopia
#acacbf · ΔE00 21.4
deuteranopia
#bdbdbd · ΔE00 22.5
tritanopia
#cdcd00 · ΔE00 54.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHushed Rose at ΔE00 1.175: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Hushed RoseΔE00 1.175 · #eea5c1
- Pink ChalkΔE00 1.289 · #f2a3bd
- Amaranth PinkΔE00 1.318 · #f19cbb
- Alien Conspiracy PinkΔE00 1.406 · #f0a3bc
- Rogue PinkΔE00 1.742 · #f8a4c0
- Tickled PinkΔE00 1.942 · #efa7bf
- Rose EleganceΔE00 2.052 · #e9a1b8
- Harmonious RoseΔE00 2.111 · #f29cb7
- Rose MallowΔE00 2.133 · #f4aac7
- Carnal PinkΔE00 2.302 · #ef9cb5
- Be My ValentineΔE00 2.492 · #ec9dc3
- Taffy PinkΔE00 2.518 · #fea6c8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.