Never Forget
#a67283
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#a67283
RGB
166, 114, 131
OKLCh
61.1% 0.069 358.1°
CIELAB (D50)
53.9, 23.0, -0.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 28% 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 66.5; on black, Lc -35.1. 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 18.6 and 20.4 and 43.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.92:1 — large text only
Black text
5.36:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.36:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9b6879 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
#a67283
protanopia
#797983 · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#848482 · ΔE00 20.4
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 43.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShade of Mauve at ΔE00 2.367: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Shade of MauveΔE00 2.367 · #ae7181
- Black ElderΔE00 2.643 · #a66e7a
- Upper CrustΔE00 2.778 · #a3758b
- Nostalgia RoseΔE00 2.909 · #a2747d
- Mauve OrchidΔE00 3.226 · #ab728d
- TapestryΔE00 3.32 · #b37084
- Mauve MadnessΔE00 3.474 · #aa7982
- French MarronΔE00 3.68 · #ad747d
- Dusk WineΔE00 3.731 · #9a7483
- CipherΔE00 3.82 · #aa7691
- Silken RaspberryΔE00 3.824 · #aa7d89
- ConcertoΔE00 3.887 · #9e6b75
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.