Creamy Berry
#debccd
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#debccd
RGB
222, 188, 205
OKLCh
83.0% 0.045 346.5°
CIELAB (D50)
79.6, 14.6, -3.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 38% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.1; on black, Lc -71.6. 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 13.2 and 13.8 and 44.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.72:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d6e7e 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
#debccd
protanopia
#c0c0cd · ΔE00 13.2
deuteranopia
#c7c7cc · ΔE00 13.8
tritanopia
#cece00 · ΔE00 44.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmoked Silver at ΔE00 0.252: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Smoked SilverΔE00 0.252 · #ddbbcc
- Scandalous RoseΔE00 0.739 · #dfbdd0
- NoteworthyΔE00 1.224 · #d9bacc
- Spring PinkΔE00 1.49 · #dfbcc9
- Spring BoutiqueΔE00 1.645 · #d7b9cb
- Delicate BloomΔE00 1.934 · #dbbfce
- KunziteΔE00 1.996 · #ddb6c6
- Lilac SnowΔE00 2.203 · #dcc0d3
- Fragrant OrchidΔE00 2.218 · #dcbdc8
- Icing FlowerΔE00 2.27 · #d5b7cb
- Pink MistΔE00 2.31 · #e6bccd
- Eau de RoseΔE00 2.314 · #e4bbd1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.