Cherry on Top
#ac495c
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ac495c
RGB
172, 73, 92
OKLCh
54.0% 0.131 10.7°
CIELAB (D50)
45.1, 42.6, 10.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 76.5; on black, Lc -25.2. 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 24.9 and 32.2 and 47.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.44:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.86:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.44:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ac495c
protanopia
#5b5b5d · ΔE00 24.9
deuteranopia
#727259 · ΔE00 32.2
tritanopia
#868600 · ΔE00 47.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHippie Pink at ΔE00 0.231: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hippie PinkΔE00 0.231 · #ab495c
- Pink QuinceΔE00 0.352 · #ab485b
- Rose ValeΔE00 1.205 · #ab4e5f
- Punky PinkΔE00 1.415 · #b2485b
- Rose Laffy TaffyΔE00 1.76 · #a6465b
- Dark RoseΔE00 1.859 · #b5485d
- Gala PinkΔE00 1.917 · #b04b63
- Cherry WineΔE00 1.993 · #b04556
- DrisheenΔE00 2.233 · #a24857
- Black PuddingΔE00 2.284 · #a44a56
- Speaking of the DevilΔE00 2.612 · #a8415b
- Holly BerryΔE00 2.65 · #b44e5d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.