Pinky Pickle
#b96d8e
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b96d8e
RGB
185, 109, 142
OKLCh
62.8% 0.104 353.0°
CIELAB (D50)
55.5, 34.1, -4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 64.6; on black, Lc -37.1. 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 21.4 and 22.4 and 51.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.72:1 — large text only
Black text
5.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#aa5f80 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
#b96d8e
protanopia
#79798e · ΔE00 21.4
deuteranopia
#89898c · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#999900 · ΔE00 51.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFuscia Fizz at ΔE00 1.487: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fuscia FizzΔE00 1.487 · #b56e91
- Malevolent MauveΔE00 2.16 · #bb6688
- Pink HibiscusΔE00 2.203 · #b36c86
- Purple StarburstΔE00 2.263 · #b16d90
- First PlumΔE00 2.348 · #b87592
- Je t’aimeΔE00 2.59 · #b36b92
- BenifujiΔE00 2.923 · #bb7796
- Strawberry SurpriseΔE00 2.959 · #b9758d
- Choral SingerΔE00 3.05 · #b77795
- So Long ShadowΔE00 3.183 · #b17494
- Raspberry ParfaitΔE00 3.342 · #b96482
- Creamed RaspberryΔE00 3.392 · #bd6883
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.