Sakura
#dfb1b6
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
#dfb1b6
RGB
223, 177, 182
OKLCh
80.3% 0.054 11.0°
CIELAB (D50)
76.5, 17.8, 4.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.9; on black, Lc -66.6. 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 17.0 and 20.7 and 40.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966c71 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
#dfb1b6
protanopia
#b7b7b6 · ΔE00 17.0
deuteranopia
#c0c0b5 · ΔE00 20.7
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 40.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeart’s Content at ΔE00 1.558: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Heart’s ContentΔE00 1.558 · #e2b5bd
- Amazon River DolphinΔE00 1.617 · #e6b2b8
- Pale ChestnutΔE00 1.624 · #ddadaf
- Roseate HuesΔE00 1.683 · #e7b6bc
- Grim PinkΔE00 1.702 · #deadaf
- Acadia BloomΔE00 1.741 · #e5b7be
- Seven VeilsΔE00 1.807 · #e3b8bd
- Premium PinkΔE00 1.854 · #e6b6be
- Peppermint StickΔE00 2.119 · #e8b9be
- Shy Young SalmonΔE00 2.354 · #dfb8bc
- Wind RoseΔE00 2.386 · #e8babd
- PentalonΔE00 2.429 · #dbb2bc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.