Pinch Me
#c88ca4
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
#c88ca4
RGB
200, 140, 164
OKLCh
70.6% 0.079 353.6°
CIELAB (D50)
64.9, 26.1, -3.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% 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 52.5; on black, Lc -49.4. 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 19.2 and 20.2 and 48.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9f667d 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
#c88ca4
protanopia
#9494a4 · ΔE00 19.2
deuteranopia
#a1a1a3 · ΔE00 20.2
tritanopia
#adad00 · ΔE00 48.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWinsome Rose at ΔE00 1.326: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Winsome RoseΔE00 1.326 · #c28ba1
- KissΔE00 2.137 · #d28ca7
- Bonny BelleΔE00 2.345 · #c58eab
- Orchid SmokeΔE00 2.358 · #cd899e
- Moonlit MauveΔE00 3.037 · #d28fb0
- Beetroot RiceΔE00 3.168 · #c58f9d
- Mauvey NudeΔE00 3.325 · #bb8899
- Light MauveΔE00 3.445 · #c292a1
- Bossy-Pants PinkΔE00 3.467 · #cb8eb1
- PuceΔE00 3.515 · #cc8899
- RosyΔE00 3.544 · #be89a8
- Berry TwistΔE00 3.572 · #d78bad
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.