HueComb

Loveland

#e6718d

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

Hex

#e6718d

RGB

230, 113, 141

OKLCh

69.2% 0.147 6.6°

CIELAB (D50)

62.6, 48.3, 7.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.6; on black, Lc -46.2. 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 25.7 and 32.9 and 55.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.95:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c2506e 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

#e6718d

protanopia

#85858e · ΔE00 25.7

deuteranopia

#9f9f8a · ΔE00 32.9

tritanopia

#b7b700 · ΔE00 55.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Blush at ΔE00 0.796: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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