Rose Laffy Taffy
#a6465b
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a6465b
RGB
166, 70, 91
OKLCh
52.6% 0.128 9.0°
CIELAB (D50)
43.5, 41.8, 8.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.2; on black, Lc -23.6. 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 24.7 and 31.5 and 47.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.76:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.65:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.76:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a6465b
protanopia
#58585c · ΔE00 24.7
deuteranopia
#6e6e58 · ΔE00 31.5
tritanopia
#818100 · ΔE00 47.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpeaking of the Devil at ΔE00 1.287: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Speaking of the DevilΔE00 1.287 · #a8415b
- Pink QuinceΔE00 1.508 · #ab485b
- Hippie PinkΔE00 1.55 · #ab495c
- DrisheenΔE00 1.665 · #a24857
- Cherry on TopΔE00 1.76 · #ac495c
- Glazed RaspberryΔE00 2.085 · #a44b62
- Night ShadzΔE00 2.352 · #a23d54
- Baked BahamaΔE00 2.413 · #9c4856
- Rose ValeΔE00 2.462 · #ab4e5f
- HotΔE00 2.519 · #ac4362
- Black PuddingΔE00 2.581 · #a44a56
- Heart’s DesireΔE00 2.697 · #ac3e5f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.