Sweet Perfume
#d49ab9
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d49ab9
RGB
212, 154, 185
OKLCh
75.1% 0.080 345.9°
CIELAB (D50)
70.0, 25.8, -7.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 42% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 45.3; on black, Lc -56.8. 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 18.1 and 18.9 and 51.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9c6684 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
#d49ab9
protanopia
#a2a2b9 · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#aeaeb8 · ΔE00 18.9
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 51.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isExotic Lilac at ΔE00 0.885: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Exotic LilacΔE00 0.885 · #d198b5
- Pink BegoniaΔE00 1.777 · #dd9cbd
- Soft MatteΔE00 1.999 · #dd99bb
- Soft FuchsiaΔE00 2.232 · #d496bd
- Morning Glory PinkΔE00 2.239 · #ca99b7
- Peach BuffΔE00 2.309 · #cc99bb
- Pastel LavenderΔE00 2.429 · #d8a1c4
- Prominent PinkΔE00 2.627 · #da9ec5
- Haute PinkΔE00 2.844 · #d899b1
- Lilac ChiffonΔE00 2.894 · #de9bc4
- Moonlit MauveΔE00 3.004 · #d28fb0
- Techno PinkΔE00 3.006 · #dd95b4
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.