Classy Mauve
#bb99aa
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
#bb99aa
RGB
187, 153, 170
OKLCh
71.9% 0.046 346.8°
CIELAB (D50)
66.8, 15.2, -3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 49.9; on black, Lc -52.1. 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 13.6 and 14.2 and 42.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.55:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e6e7e 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
#bb99aa
protanopia
#9d9daa · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#a4a4a9 · ΔE00 14.2
tritanopia
#abab00 · ΔE00 42.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isViolet Fantasy at ΔE00 0.665: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Violet FantasyΔE00 0.665 · #ba97a9
- AshberryΔE00 1.815 · #b495a4
- LilyΔE00 2.1 · #c19fb3
- FiddlesticksΔE00 2.434 · #bb9fb1
- Hollyhock PinkΔE00 2.6 · #c2a1b5
- Pale PetticoatΔE00 2.632 · #ba9ba5
- DamselΔE00 2.643 · #c69eae
- Shady PinkΔE00 2.647 · #c4a1af
- Pretty LadyΔE00 2.783 · #c3a1b6
- Bed of RosesΔE00 2.796 · #b893ab
- DecantingΔE00 2.876 · #bfa1ad
- Artichoke MauveΔE00 2.906 · #c19aa5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.