Plushy Pink
#eab7a8
A red 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
#eab7a8
RGB
234, 183, 168
OKLCh
82.1% 0.063 37.0°
CIELAB (D50)
78.8, 17.5, 15.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 19 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.6; on black, Lc -70.1. 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 21.2 and 22.4 and 34.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.84:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.84:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6c5e 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
#eab7a8
protanopia
#bebea8 · ΔE00 21.2
deuteranopia
#c8c8a6 · ΔE00 22.4
tritanopia
#d2d200 · ΔE00 34.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPorcelain Crab at ΔE00 0.254: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Porcelain CrabΔE00 0.254 · #e9b7a8
- City of Pink AngelsΔE00 0.905 · #e6b4a6
- Sweet ShebaΔE00 1.192 · #f0b9a9
- EmbraceΔE00 1.201 · #e8b8a7
- Spicy HummusΔE00 1.231 · #eebbaa
- JovialΔE00 1.267 · #eeb9a7
- Pale Satin PeachΔE00 1.328 · #f0bcad
- Carnation CoralΔE00 1.374 · #edb9ad
- Pink CocoaΔE00 1.532 · #e9b7ac
- ShiloΔE00 1.689 · #e6b2a6
- Rachel PinkΔE00 1.727 · #e8b9ae
- Virgin PeachΔE00 1.732 · #ecbdb0
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.