Our Little Secret
#a84b7a
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a84b7a
RGB
168, 75, 122
OKLCh
54.6% 0.133 350.9°
CIELAB (D50)
45.5, 42.8, -7.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.9; on black, Lc -25.8. 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 23.3 and 23.3 and 54.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.31:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.95:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.31:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a84b7a
protanopia
#5c5c7a · ΔE00 23.3
deuteranopia
#717178 · ΔE00 23.3
tritanopia
#838300 · ΔE00 54.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMagenta Haze at ΔE00 1.483: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Magenta HazeΔE00 1.483 · #a44775
- Mystic MaroonΔE00 1.818 · #ad4379
- Pink BalladΔE00 2.791 · #a6427c
- Exuberant PinkΔE00 2.916 · #b54d7f
- Signal PinkΔE00 3.17 · #b15384
- ValentinoΔE00 3.479 · #b64476
- Orchid LeiΔE00 3.539 · #9c4a7d
- Diva GlamΔE00 3.598 · #b24e76
- Razzle DazzleΔE00 3.736 · #ba417b
- Guppy VioletΔE00 3.8 · #ae5883
- Vivid ViolaΔE00 3.877 · #a4407e
- SpeedwellΔE00 3.981 · #b4547e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.