HueComb

Foxy Pink

#db95ab

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

Hex

#db95ab

RGB

219, 149, 171

OKLCh

74.5% 0.088 359.0°

CIELAB (D50)

69.3, 29.4, -0.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.4; on black, Lc -55.7. 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 20.9 and 23.7 and 49.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.36:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.90:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.90:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a56379 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

#db95ab

protanopia

#9f9fab · ΔE00 20.9

deuteranopia

#adada9 · ΔE00 23.7

tritanopia

#bcbc00 · ΔE00 49.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKobi at ΔE00 1.245: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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