HueComb

Candy Dreams

#e9aef2

A magenta that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#e9aef2

RGB

233, 174, 242

OKLCh

82.7% 0.112 322.0°

CIELAB (D50)

78.4, 30.6, -25.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.7; on black, Lc -70.0. 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 15.2 and 14.4 and 62.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.78:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9a63a2 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

#e9aef2

protanopia

#b6b6f2 · ΔE00 15.2

deuteranopia

#c2c2f1 · ΔE00 14.4

tritanopia

#cece00 · ΔE00 62.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPinky Swear at ΔE00 1.964: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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