Pomelo Red
#e38fac
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e38fac
RGB
227, 143, 172
OKLCh
74.4% 0.107 357.8°
CIELAB (D50)
69.0, 35.4, -1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 46.9; on black, Lc -55.2. 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 22.3 and 24.9 and 53.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.39:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ad5e7b 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
#e38fac
protanopia
#9c9cac · ΔE00 22.3
deuteranopia
#adadaa · ΔE00 24.9
tritanopia
#bfbf00 · ΔE00 53.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCharm Pink at ΔE00 0.617: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Charm PinkΔE00 0.617 · #e68fac
- KobiΔE00 1.517 · #e093ab
- RosebloomΔE00 1.738 · #e290b2
- Vivacious PinkΔE00 1.915 · #dc89a8
- Usu Koubai BlossomΔE00 1.968 · #e597b2
- Double BubbleΔE00 2.414 · #e998b1
- Passion PotionΔE00 2.45 · #e398af
- Underwater FlareΔE00 2.458 · #e78ea5
- Rose GloryΔE00 2.531 · #e585a5
- Peach FlowerΔE00 2.567 · #e198b4
- Foxy PinkΔE00 2.58 · #db95ab
- Chewing Gum PinkΔE00 2.648 · #e292b6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.