Punched Pink
#b68692
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b68692
RGB
182, 134, 146
OKLCh
67.0% 0.061 2.3°
CIELAB (D50)
61.0, 20.3, 1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 26% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.7; on black, Lc -44.1. 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 17.6 and 20.4 and 41.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.08:1 — large text only
Black text
6.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#986a76 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
#b68692
protanopia
#8c8c92 · ΔE00 17.6
deuteranopia
#969691 · ΔE00 20.4
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 41.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerry Blush at ΔE00 0.765: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Berry BlushΔE00 0.765 · #b88591
- FireweedΔE00 0.88 · #b38491
- Rose TeaΔE00 1.471 · #b48993
- Noble LilacΔE00 1.557 · #b28392
- Lime PinkΔE00 1.781 · #b6848c
- Keepsake RoseΔE00 1.805 · #b08693
- MonastirΔE00 1.88 · #b78999
- Mauvey NudeΔE00 2.001 · #bb8899
- NuisetteΔE00 2.218 · #b48395
- Degas PinkΔE00 2.523 · #b37e8c
- Strawberry JubileeΔE00 2.729 · #c08591
- RosenkavalierΔE00 2.75 · #bc8a90
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.