Je t’aime
#b36b92
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b36b92
RGB
179, 107, 146
OKLCh
61.9% 0.104 346.9°
CIELAB (D50)
54.4, 33.4, -8.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.9; on black, Lc -35.8. 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 20.3 and 21.0 and 53.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.86:1 — large text only
Black text
5.43:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.43:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a76087 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
#b36b92
protanopia
#767692 · ΔE00 20.3
deuteranopia
#858590 · ΔE00 21.0
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 53.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Starburst at ΔE00 1.033: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple StarburstΔE00 1.033 · #b16d90
- Fuscia FizzΔE00 1.389 · #b56e91
- Pinky PickleΔE00 2.59 · #b96d8e
- Cure AllΔE00 2.743 · #aa6988
- So Long ShadowΔE00 2.852 · #b17494
- ViolettaΔE00 2.964 · #ac6b98
- Wild MulberryΔE00 3.325 · #a96388
- Mauve OrchidΔE00 3.538 · #ab728d
- Exotic BloomΔE00 3.681 · #ac6292
- Malevolent MauveΔE00 3.755 · #bb6688
- First PlumΔE00 3.791 · #b87592
- Choral SingerΔE00 3.898 · #b77795
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.