Pastel Pink
#dea5a4
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#dea5a4
RGB
222, 165, 164
OKLCh
77.5% 0.068 19.9°
CIELAB (D50)
73.2, 21.6, 9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.9; on black, Lc -61.4. 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 21.7 and 24.9 and 39.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.09:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.02:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.02:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9d6969 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
#dea5a4
protanopia
#adada4 · ΔE00 21.7
deuteranopia
#b8b8a2 · ΔE00 24.9
tritanopia
#c4c400 · ΔE00 39.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPassive Pink at ΔE00 1.452: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Passive PinkΔE00 1.452 · #dba29e
- Pink PussycatΔE00 1.623 · #dc9f9f
- Peach PoppyΔE00 1.764 · #ddaaaa
- Silver PinkΔE00 1.97 · #d9a8a8
- Rosetti PinkΔE00 1.978 · #d8a2a5
- Mellow RoseΔE00 2.049 · #d9a6a1
- Pink StockΔE00 2.071 · #ddabab
- PimlicoΔE00 2.167 · #df9e9d
- Bussell LaceΔE00 2.306 · #e5a1a0
- Coral CoveΔE00 2.34 · #dda69f
- Coral FountainΔE00 2.53 · #e3a9a2
- PromΔE00 2.555 · #daa5aa
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.