Primrose
#d6859f
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d6859f
RGB
214, 133, 159
OKLCh
70.8% 0.104 359.4°
CIELAB (D50)
64.9, 34.4, -0.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.5; on black, Lc -49.3. 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 22.2 and 25.7 and 51.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.72:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac5f79 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
#d6859f
protanopia
#91919f · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#a2a29d · ΔE00 25.7
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 51.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDull Pink at ΔE00 0.831: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dull PinkΔE00 0.831 · #d5869d
- Sweet ChrysanthemumΔE00 1.579 · #dd84a3
- Heirloom RoseΔE00 1.79 · #d182a0
- Vivacious PinkΔE00 2.042 · #dc89a8
- Reflecting RoseΔE00 2.054 · #db899e
- Orchid SmokeΔE00 2.32 · #cd899e
- Little Bow PinkΔE00 2.338 · #d37c99
- Cashmere RoseΔE00 2.45 · #cb8097
- Speckled Easter EggΔE00 2.611 · #d38798
- KissΔE00 2.636 · #d28ca7
- Can CanΔE00 2.733 · #d08a9b
- Rose GloryΔE00 2.823 · #e585a5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.