Pink Bliss

#e3abce

A magenta 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

#e3abce

RGB

227, 171, 206

OKLCh

80.3% 0.080 341.1°

CIELAB (D50)

76.1, 25.2, -9.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.4; on black, Lc -66.0. 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 17.9 and 53.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.91:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9a6788 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

#e3abce

protanopia

#b2b2ce · ΔE00 17.2

deuteranopia

#bebecd · ΔE00 17.9

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 53.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Pearl at ΔE00 0.814: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pink PearlΔE00 0.814 · #e7accf
  • Dreamy PinkΔE00 0.887 · #dfabcd
  • Flower PowerΔE00 0.999 · #e6aed3
  • Pink PlungeΔE00 1.116 · #e4add3
  • Aristocratic PinkΔE00 1.231 · #ddaacc
  • Roses in the SnowΔE00 1.521 · #e7aecd
  • GumballΔE00 2.055 · #e7b2d0
  • Lofty DelightΔE00 2.336 · #d9a9c6
  • Coral Corn SnakeΔE00 2.421 · #e9adca
  • Pink GemsΔE00 2.598 · #e6b5d7
  • Pink BeautyΔE00 2.637 · #dca7c2
  • Party TimeΔE00 2.689 · #e3a9c4

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