Velour Scar
#8e5164
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#8e5164
RGB
142, 81, 100
OKLCh
51.2% 0.085 0.5°
CIELAB (D50)
42.3, 27.9, 0.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.7; on black, Lc -22.1. 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 20.6 and 23.9 and 43.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.51:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#8e5164
protanopia
#5b5b64 · ΔE00 20.6
deuteranopia
#686862 · ΔE00 23.9
tritanopia
#747400 · ΔE00 43.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Peppercorn at ΔE00 1.4: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pink PeppercornΔE00 1.4 · #8e5565
- Vin RougeΔE00 1.894 · #955264
- Hawthorn RoseΔE00 1.952 · #884c5e
- Berry SmoothieΔE00 2.144 · #895360
- Red ShrivelΔE00 2.354 · #874c62
- Aged WineΔE00 2.497 · #895460
- GlitteratiΔE00 2.601 · #944a63
- Vive L’amourΔE00 2.655 · #995468
- Majestic OrchidΔE00 2.836 · #8d576d
- Violet QuartzΔE00 2.909 · #8b4963
- Grandeur PlumΔE00 2.96 · #92576f
- Raspberry CrushΔE00 3.082 · #875169
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.