HueComb

Raspberry Mousse

#e06f8b

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

Hex

#e06f8b

RGB

224, 111, 139

OKLCh

68.1% 0.143 6.0°

CIELAB (D50)

61.3, 47.0, 6.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 57.3; on black, Lc -44.5. 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 25.5 and 32.2 and 54.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.08:1 — large text only

Black text

6.82:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.82:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c0526f 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

#e06f8b

protanopia

#82828c · ΔE00 25.5

deuteranopia

#9c9c88 · ΔE00 32.2

tritanopia

#b3b300 · ΔE00 54.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Blush at ΔE00 0.778: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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