I Love You Pink
#d97d8f
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d97d8f
RGB
217, 125, 143
OKLCh
69.4% 0.115 7.9°
CIELAB (D50)
63.2, 38.0, 6.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.8; on black, Lc -47.0. 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 23.9 and 30.1 and 50.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.88:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b45b6e 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
#d97d8f
protanopia
#8b8b8f · ΔE00 23.9
deuteranopia
#9f9f8c · ΔE00 30.1
tritanopia
#b2b200 · ΔE00 50.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isI Pink I Can at ΔE00 1.332: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- I Pink I CanΔE00 1.332 · #d47f8d
- Bella PinkΔE00 1.608 · #e08194
- Rose SoireeΔE00 1.922 · #e08395
- Creamy CoralΔE00 2.091 · #dd7788
- Shimmering BlushΔE00 2.292 · #d98695
- CarissimaΔE00 2.478 · #e68095
- RazzberriesΔE00 2.582 · #d1768c
- Dusky PinkΔE00 2.613 · #cc7a8b
- Hot GossipΔE00 2.624 · #e07c89
- Frosty BerryΔE00 2.745 · #e1809a
- Impatient PinkΔE00 2.828 · #db7b97
- MelancholyΔE00 2.857 · #dd8899
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.