HueComb

Violet Kiss

#f0a0d1

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

Hex

#f0a0d1

RGB

240, 160, 209

OKLCh

79.9% 0.113 342.6°

CIELAB (D50)

75.1, 35.7, -12.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 37.9; on black, Lc -64.5. 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 20.2 and 20.3 and 59.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.97:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a85e8d 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

#f0a0d1

protanopia

#acacd1 · ΔE00 20.2

deuteranopia

#bcbccf · ΔE00 20.3

tritanopia

#cdcd00 · ΔE00 59.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPearly Pink at ΔE00 1.621: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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