Candied Apple
#b95b6d
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b95b6d
RGB
185, 91, 109
OKLCh
58.9% 0.122 9.5°
CIELAB (D50)
50.9, 40.0, 8.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.0; on black, Lc -31.6. 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 24.5 and 31.0 and 48.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.39:1 — large text only
Black text
4.78:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.78:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b7596b 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
#b95b6d
protanopia
#6b6b6e · ΔE00 24.5
deuteranopia
#80806a · ΔE00 31.0
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 48.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSensuous at ΔE00 1.439: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SensuousΔE00 1.439 · #b75e6b
- Slate PinkΔE00 1.817 · #b3586c
- Hot FlamingoΔE00 2.09 · #b35966
- Baroque RoseΔE00 2.178 · #b35a66
- Mon Cher AmiΔE00 2.316 · #c45971
- Ripe CherryΔE00 2.369 · #c3556f
- Pretty PeonyΔE00 2.409 · #ae5d6d
- Tropical SmoothieΔE00 2.533 · #c5556d
- Tulip RedΔE00 2.764 · #b8516a
- Cherry KissesΔE00 2.784 · #b15e67
- Candy DropΔE00 2.983 · #c25d6a
- Pink FlameΔE00 3.083 · #b55a63
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.