Fading Love
#c973a2
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#c973a2
RGB
201, 115, 162
OKLCh
66.4% 0.122 347.0°
CIELAB (D50)
59.4, 39.1, -9.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.5; on black, Lc -42.2. 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 21.8 and 21.9 and 57.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.25:1 — large text only
Black text
6.46:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.46:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ae5b89 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
#c973a2
protanopia
#8181a2 · ΔE00 21.8
deuteranopia
#9393a0 · ΔE00 21.9
tritanopia
#a5a500 · ΔE00 57.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeartbreaker at ΔE00 1.07: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- HeartbreakerΔE00 1.07 · #cc76a3
- Strawberry FreezeΔE00 1.861 · #c677a8
- Camellia PinkΔE00 1.969 · #cd739d
- Dolomite RedΔE00 2.31 · #c5769b
- Sugar CreekΔE00 2.313 · #c96fa8
- Super PinkΔE00 2.562 · #ce6ba6
- Bishop RedΔE00 2.613 · #c473a9
- Fuchsia KissΔE00 2.645 · #cb6e98
- Ice PlantΔE00 3.15 · #cf7ead
- Sky MagentaΔE00 3.22 · #cf71af
- Hollyhock Blossom PinkΔE00 3.23 · #bd79a5
- Nocturnal RoseΔE00 3.364 · #cc6699
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.