Mauvelous
#d6b3c0
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#d6b3c0
RGB
214, 179, 192
OKLCh
80.1% 0.044 353.8°
CIELAB (D50)
76.4, 14.6, -1.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.1; on black, Lc -66.4. 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 13.8 and 14.5 and 42.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.90:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e6e7a 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
#d6b3c0
protanopia
#b7b7c0 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#bebebf · ΔE00 14.5
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 42.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKindness at ΔE00 0.591: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- KindnessΔE00 0.591 · #d4b2c0
- Pale LilacΔE00 1.202 · #d8b5bf
- Tranquil DuskΔE00 1.668 · #d3b2c3
- Pink PotionΔE00 1.761 · #ceaebb
- KunziteΔE00 1.771 · #ddb6c6
- PentalonΔE00 2.18 · #dbb2bc
- Iced WatermelonΔE00 2.199 · #d1afb7
- Spring PinkΔE00 2.307 · #dfbcc9
- Mental FlossΔE00 2.323 · #deb4c5
- MelanieΔE00 2.388 · #e0b7c2
- Strawberry GlazeΔE00 2.433 · #dab7be
- Sugarplum DanceΔE00 2.506 · #d1abb5
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.