Pulp
#e18289
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e18289
RGB
225, 130, 137
OKLCh
71.1% 0.117 15.8°
CIELAB (D50)
65.2, 38.0, 13.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.2; on black, Lc -49.7. 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 26.5 and 31.2 and 47.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.71:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.76:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.76:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b65b63 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
#e18289
protanopia
#91918a · ΔE00 26.5
deuteranopia
#a5a586 · ΔE00 31.2
tritanopia
#b9b900 · ΔE00 47.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrue Love at ΔE00 1.58: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- True LoveΔE00 1.58 · #e27e8a
- DimpleΔE00 1.658 · #e9808b
- Rhubarb PieΔE00 1.876 · #d78187
- Hot GossipΔE00 2.087 · #e07c89
- Peach BlossomΔE00 2.152 · #dc7a83
- Peaches of ImmortalityΔE00 2.277 · #d98586
- Apple ValleyΔE00 2.364 · #ea8386
- Strawberry IceΔE00 2.383 · #e78b90
- Pink ChiΔE00 2.418 · #e4898a
- Finest BlushΔE00 2.5 · #dd8888
- Boho BlushΔE00 2.583 · #e58787
- Victorian RougeΔE00 2.845 · #d28085
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.