Brandywine Spritz
#e69dad
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e69dad
RGB
230, 157, 173
OKLCh
77.2% 0.089 5.0°
CIELAB (D50)
72.4, 29.6, 3.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.0; on black, Lc -60.2. 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 21.5 and 26.4 and 48.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.14:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a76373 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
#e69dad
protanopia
#a7a7ad · ΔE00 21.5
deuteranopia
#b6b6ab · ΔE00 26.4
tritanopia
#c5c500 · ΔE00 48.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVintage Victorian at ΔE00 0.331: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vintage VictorianΔE00 0.331 · #e59dac
- Second BlushΔE00 1.116 · #e89aad
- Colorado DawnΔE00 1.147 · #e09cab
- Sprinkled With PinkΔE00 1.618 · #e7a2ae
- Faded PinkΔE00 1.652 · #de9dac
- Pegeen PeonyΔE00 1.721 · #ea9fb4
- Pink MomentΔE00 1.781 · #ed9aab
- Blush BombΔE00 1.884 · #dd99aa
- Always RoseyΔE00 1.904 · #e79db3
- Nana’s RoseΔE00 1.908 · #de9eaa
- Cherry IceΔE00 1.928 · #dd98a6
- Rose DelightΔE00 1.928 · #e099ad
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.