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#ac4362
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ac4362
RGB
172, 67, 98
OKLCh
53.3% 0.140 4.8°
CIELAB (D50)
44.2, 45.8, 5.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.4; on black, Lc -24.3. 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 25.3 and 31.4 and 51.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.73:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ac4362
protanopia
#575763 · ΔE00 25.3
deuteranopia
#6f6f5f · ΔE00 31.4
tritanopia
#848400 · ΔE00 51.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeart’s Desire at ΔE00 1.07: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Heart’s DesireΔE00 1.07 · #ac3e5f
- SangriaΔE00 1.303 · #b14566
- Bing Cherry PieΔE00 1.661 · #af4967
- Rouge LikeΔE00 1.726 · #a94064
- Speaking of the DevilΔE00 1.848 · #a8415b
- Cry of a RoseΔE00 2.01 · #b23c5d
- Glazed RaspberryΔE00 2.277 · #a44b62
- GooseberryΔE00 2.429 · #a23f5d
- Rose Laffy TaffyΔE00 2.519 · #a6465b
- Gala PinkΔE00 2.583 · #b04b63
- IrresistibleΔE00 2.659 · #b3446c
- Raspberry RoseΔE00 2.719 · #b3436c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.