HueComb

Think Pink

#e5a5c1

A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#e5a5c1

RGB

229, 165, 193

OKLCh

79.0% 0.083 351.2°

CIELAB (D50)

74.6, 27.4, -4.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.7; on black, Lc -63.6. 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 19.3 and 20.3 and 51.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.00:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a06580 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

#e5a5c1

protanopia

#aeaec1 · ΔE00 19.3

deuteranopia

#bbbbc0 · ΔE00 20.3

tritanopia

#c8c800 · ΔE00 51.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParty Time at ΔE00 1.368: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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