Mangala Pink
#e781a6
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e781a6
RGB
231, 129, 166
OKLCh
72.5% 0.132 357.8°
CIELAB (D50)
66.4, 43.2, -1.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 50.4; on black, Lc -51.5. 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 24.1 and 26.5 and 56.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.60:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.09:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.09:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b8577c 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
#e781a6
protanopia
#9191a6 · ΔE00 24.1
deuteranopia
#a8a8a3 · ΔE00 26.5
tritanopia
#bcbc00 · ΔE00 56.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAurora Pink at ΔE00 0.199: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Aurora PinkΔE00 0.199 · #e881a6
- Rose GloryΔE00 1.257 · #e585a5
- HopeΔE00 1.588 · #e581a0
- Sweet ChrysanthemumΔE00 2.008 · #dd84a3
- Pinking. Fast and SlowΔE00 2.302 · #df7ba4
- Brown KnapweedΔE00 2.422 · #f485ac
- Pink CarnationΔE00 2.501 · #ed7a9e
- Real RaspberryΔE00 2.814 · #dd79a2
- Vivacious PinkΔE00 2.872 · #dc89a8
- Frosty BerryΔE00 3.021 · #e1809a
- Springtime BloomΔE00 3.317 · #db88ac
- Charm PinkΔE00 3.37 · #e68fac
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.