Extravagant Blush
#b55067
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b55067
RGB
181, 80, 103
OKLCh
56.6% 0.133 8.1°
CIELAB (D50)
48.1, 43.4, 8.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 73.2; on black, Lc -28.4. 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 31.8 and 49.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.31:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b55067
protanopia
#626268 · ΔE00 25.0
deuteranopia
#797964 · ΔE00 31.8
tritanopia
#8e8e00 · ΔE00 49.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTulip Red at ΔE00 0.897: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Tulip RedΔE00 0.897 · #b8516a
- GlamorousΔE00 0.992 · #b74e64
- Pink DahliaΔE00 1.06 · #b94c66
- Gala PinkΔE00 1.786 · #b04b63
- Kissed by a ZombiesΔE00 1.845 · #b15363
- Sombre RosesΔE00 1.87 · #af546b
- Slate PinkΔE00 2.022 · #b3586c
- Vibrant RedΔE00 2.581 · #c24c6a
- Rose ValeΔE00 2.657 · #ab4e5f
- Dark RoseΔE00 2.663 · #b5485d
- Mauve ItΔE00 2.708 · #bb4466
- Bing Cherry PieΔE00 2.937 · #af4967
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.