Light Blush
#e9c4cc
A pink 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
#e9c4cc
RGB
233, 196, 204
OKLCh
85.4% 0.043 3.5°
CIELAB (D50)
82.6, 14.5, 1.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.6; on black, Lc -76.4. 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 14.3 and 16.4 and 41.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8f6e76 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
#e9c4cc
protanopia
#c9c9cc · ΔE00 14.3
deuteranopia
#d0d0cb · ΔE00 16.4
tritanopia
#d7d700 · ΔE00 41.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrimrose Pink at ΔE00 0.485: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Primrose PinkΔE00 0.485 · #e7c2ca
- Funny FaceΔE00 1.197 · #edc8ce
- Cake PopΔE00 1.219 · #edc9d0
- Soft SatinΔE00 1.234 · #eec5ce
- Pale PrimroseΔE00 1.519 · #eec8d3
- Soap PinkΔE00 1.578 · #e5bfca
- Oh so PrettyΔE00 1.696 · #eac7cb
- Oh so PinkΔE00 1.717 · #f1c7d0
- Panache PinkΔE00 1.938 · #edc9d5
- Pink SlipperΔE00 1.998 · #eacad0
- Desire PinkΔE00 2.055 · #eec5d2
- Ice Hot PinkΔE00 2.114 · #e4bdc2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.