She Loves Pink
#e39b96
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e39b96
RGB
227, 155, 150
OKLCh
75.9% 0.087 23.7°
CIELAB (D50)
71.2, 27.2, 14.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.9; on black, Lc -58.2. 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 25.2 and 27.5 and 41.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.40:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.40:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a76561 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
#e39b96
protanopia
#a5a596 · ΔE00 25.2
deuteranopia
#b4b494 · ΔE00 27.5
tritanopia
#c3c300 · ΔE00 41.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMexicali Rose at ΔE00 1.103: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mexicali RoseΔE00 1.103 · #e39b99
- Strawberry RoseΔE00 1.26 · #e29991
- Pale BerryΔE00 1.473 · #e39e9c
- Coral AlmondΔE00 1.561 · #e29d94
- Salmon Pink RedΔE00 1.636 · #e1958f
- Dusty CedarΔE00 1.798 · #dd9592
- Petite OrchidΔE00 1.956 · #da9790
- Strawberry MemoryΔE00 2.021 · #e2958d
- Coral CloudΔE00 2.157 · #dc958d
- PimlicoΔE00 2.178 · #df9e9d
- Blushing BudΔE00 2.231 · #dd9999
- Coral AtollΔE00 2.255 · #dc938d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.