Hot Flamingo
#b35966
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b35966
RGB
179, 89, 102
OKLCh
57.6% 0.117 12.4°
CIELAB (D50)
49.5, 38.2, 10.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.7; on black, Lc -29.9. 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 25.0 and 30.9 and 46.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.54:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b35966
protanopia
#686867 · ΔE00 25.0
deuteranopia
#7c7c63 · ΔE00 30.9
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 46.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaroque Rose at ΔE00 0.353: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Baroque RoseΔE00 0.353 · #b35a66
- Pink FlameΔE00 1.544 · #b55a63
- Cherry KissesΔE00 1.552 · #b15e67
- SensuousΔE00 1.748 · #b75e6b
- Kissed by a ZombiesΔE00 1.766 · #b15363
- Alsike Clover RedΔE00 2.017 · #b1575f
- Ruby PetalsΔE00 2.072 · #aa5b67
- Candied AppleΔE00 2.09 · #b95b6d
- RedbudΔE00 2.128 · #ad5e65
- Cinnamon CandleΔE00 2.205 · #b15d63
- Slate PinkΔE00 2.307 · #b3586c
- Delicate PrunusΔE00 2.406 · #a95c68
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.