HueComb

Malevolent Mauve

#bb6688

A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#bb6688

RGB

187, 102, 136

OKLCh

61.7% 0.115 355.6°

CIELAB (D50)

54.1, 37.8, -2.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.2; on black, Lc -35.4. 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 22.7 and 23.8 and 52.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.91:1 — large text only

Black text

5.37:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.37:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b05c7e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bb6688

protanopia

#747488 · ΔE00 22.7

deuteranopia

#868686 · ΔE00 23.8

tritanopia

#989800 · ΔE00 52.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaspberry Parfait at ΔE00 1.509: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.