HueComb

Roseate Spoonbill

#e0adc4

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

#e0adc4

RGB

224, 173, 196

OKLCh

80.1% 0.066 349.9°

CIELAB (D50)

76.0, 21.8, -4.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.6; on black, Lc -65.8. 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 17.2 and 18.0 and 48.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.92:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#98697f 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

#e0adc4

protanopia

#b4b4c4 · ΔE00 17.2

deuteranopia

#bebec3 · ΔE00 18.0

tritanopia

#c8c800 · ΔE00 48.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMuddy Mauve at ΔE00 1.721: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.