Pink colours

The pink family in numbers

• 14 catalogue colours, from CIELAB lightness 50 to 96 (median 67).
• Most saturated: Magenta; least: Lavender Blush. Median chroma 31.
• 1 lean warm, 0 lean cool, 13 sit neutral.
• 0 of 14 are dark enough to use as body text on white (4.5:1).
• 6 of 14 fall within, or at the edge of, what premium coated offset print can reach.

The history of pink: names, pigments and meanings

What is documented about pink

True of the family in the stated context, not of every shade in it and not everywhere. See methodology.

• Common association · Western

  Pink is often associated with softness, romance and gentleness in many Western contexts.

• Changing meaning · Western, 19th to 20th century

  Pink was not consistently gendered in Western fashion until the mid-20th century, when it became more strongly marketed as a colour for girls — some earlier 20th-century conventions associated pink with boys and blue with girls.