HueComb

Strawberry Milkshake

#d47186

A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#d47186

RGB

212, 113, 134

OKLCh

66.6% 0.126 7.6°

CIELAB (D50)

59.8, 41.3, 7.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 59.2; on black, Lc -42.5. 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 24.5 and 30.9 and 51.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.23:1 — large text only

Black text

6.51:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.51:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b8586e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#d47186

protanopia

#818187 · ΔE00 24.5

deuteranopia

#979783 · ΔE00 30.9

tritanopia

#abab00 · ΔE00 51.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFirst Love at ΔE00 1.635: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.