HueComb

Roses in the Snow

#e7aecd

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

#e7aecd

RGB

231, 174, 205

OKLCh

81.2% 0.077 345.1°

CIELAB (D50)

77.2, 25.0, -7.3

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 34.8; on black, Lc -67.7. 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 17.7 and 18.5 and 52.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.85:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9b6784 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

#e7aecd

protanopia

#b6b6cd · ΔE00 17.7

deuteranopia

#c1c1cc · ΔE00 18.5

tritanopia

#cdcd00 · ΔE00 52.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoral Corn Snake at ΔE00 1.074: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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