Blush Hour
#ff6f91
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff6f91
RGB
255, 111, 145
OKLCh
72.5% 0.177 7.9°
CIELAB (D50)
66.0, 58.0, 10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.9; on black, Lc -51.0. 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 27.6 and 37.2 and 58.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#cf4369 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
#ff6f91
protanopia
#8a8a92 · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#abab8d · ΔE00 37.2
tritanopia
#c7c700 · ΔE00 58.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerlin Pink at ΔE00 1.709: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Berlin PinkΔE00 1.709 · #ff6989
- Aggressive SalmonΔE00 1.804 · #ff7799
- Pink ExplosionΔE00 2.374 · #f56f88
- Rosy PinkΔE00 2.423 · #f6688e
- Out of FashionΔE00 2.446 · #f26d8f
- CarnationΔE00 2.711 · #fd798f
- Ultra RedΔE00 2.766 · #fc6c85
- Rose CheeksΔE00 2.801 · #f0738a
- God’s Own Junkyard PinkΔE00 2.813 · #f56991
- Grapefruit JuiceΔE00 2.974 · #ee6d8a
- Magical GirlΔE00 3.107 · #ff7a8f
- Wild WatermelonΔE00 3.153 · #fc6d84
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.