Cinnapink
#a6646f
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a6646f
RGB
166, 100, 111
OKLCh
57.9% 0.086 9.3°
CIELAB (D50)
50.2, 28.4, 5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.0; on black, Lc -30.7. 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 21.5 and 27.1 and 42.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.49:1 — large text only
Black text
4.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a6646f 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
#a6646f
protanopia
#6e6e6f · ΔE00 21.5
deuteranopia
#7c7c6d · ΔE00 27.1
tritanopia
#8a8a00 · ΔE00 42.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Sakura at ΔE00 1.004: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dark SakuraΔE00 1.004 · #a2646f
- Berry CrushΔE00 1.29 · #aa6772
- Heather RoseΔE00 1.345 · #a76372
- Marble RedΔE00 1.501 · #a9606e
- Matte CarmineΔE00 1.627 · #a06570
- Shine Baby ShineΔE00 2.15 · #a85e6e
- Deco RoseΔE00 2.307 · #9e6370
- High Country RoseΔE00 2.583 · #a06974
- Delicate PrunusΔE00 2.694 · #a95c68
- Pretty PeonyΔE00 2.791 · #ae5d6d
- MauvewoodΔE00 2.811 · #ae6a78
- Refined RoseΔE00 3.046 · #af6879
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.