Fat Smooch
#c1537d
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c1537d
RGB
193, 83, 125
OKLCh
59.4% 0.147 358.6°
CIELAB (D50)
51.0, 48.0, -0.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.7; on black, Lc -31.9. 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 25.6 and 28.2 and 55.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.37:1 — large text only
Black text
4.80:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.80:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bf517b 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
#c1537d
protanopia
#67677e · ΔE00 25.6
deuteranopia
#80807a · ΔE00 28.2
tritanopia
#969600 · ΔE00 55.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCockscomb Red at ΔE00 1.399: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cockscomb RedΔE00 1.399 · #bc5378
- Tutti FruttiΔE00 1.517 · #bc587b
- Shattan GoldΔE00 1.851 · #bb5577
- Panama RoseΔE00 2.077 · #c6577c
- Middle SafflowerΔE00 2.113 · #c85179
- Pink FlambéΔE00 2.361 · #cd4e82
- LipstickΔE00 2.82 · #c95b83
- Kir Royale RoseΔE00 2.891 · #b45877
- Beauty QueenΔE00 2.893 · #be5c87
- Pretty in PlumΔE00 2.942 · #cc5588
- Sparkling Blueberry LemonadeΔE00 3.025 · #c15187
- SpeedwellΔE00 3.084 · #b4547e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.