Mauve It
#bb4466
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb4466
RGB
187, 68, 102
OKLCh
55.9% 0.155 6.1°
CIELAB (D50)
47.0, 50.7, 7.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.3; on black, Lc -27.4. 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 26.4 and 33.6 and 53.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb4466
protanopia
#5c5c67 · ΔE00 26.4
deuteranopia
#787862 · ΔE00 33.6
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 53.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Dahlia at ΔE00 1.884: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pink DahliaΔE00 1.884 · #b94c66
- SangriaΔE00 2.223 · #b14566
- Lickedy LickΔE00 2.416 · #b4496c
- Gala PinkΔE00 2.461 · #b04b63
- Bing Cherry PieΔE00 2.528 · #af4967
- Vibrant RedΔE00 2.684 · #c24c6a
- Extravagant BlushΔE00 2.708 · #b55067
- GlamorousΔE00 2.713 · #b74e64
- Tulip RedΔE00 2.764 · #b8516a
- Raspberry JamΔE00 2.88 · #ca3767
- Cry of a RoseΔE00 2.941 · #b23c5d
- Lake RedΔE00 2.948 · #b74a70
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.