Strawberry Moon
#cf5570
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cf5570
RGB
207, 85, 112
OKLCh
61.4% 0.156 9.3°
CIELAB (D50)
53.4, 50.9, 10.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.0; on black, Lc -34.6. 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 26.5 and 35.0 and 53.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.05:1 — large text only
Black text
5.19:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.19:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c64d69 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
#cf5570
protanopia
#6c6c71 · ΔE00 26.5
deuteranopia
#88886c · ΔE00 35.0
tritanopia
#a0a000 · ΔE00 53.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCabaret at ΔE00 1.046: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CabaretΔE00 1.046 · #cd526c
- Rapture RoseΔE00 1.366 · #cf5a70
- Kenny’s KissΔE00 1.482 · #d45871
- Tropical SmoothieΔE00 2.013 · #c5556d
- Imayou PinkΔE00 2.036 · #d0576b
- Mon Cher AmiΔE00 2.2 · #c45971
- Fruit DoveΔE00 2.339 · #ca4f70
- Eros PinkΔE00 2.415 · #c84f68
- Rosy CheeksΔE00 2.549 · #dc506e
- Ripe CherryΔE00 2.554 · #c3556f
- Pink PunchΔE00 2.581 · #d04a70
- Fever DreamΔE00 2.827 · #dd5577
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.