Petite Pink
#eacacb
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
#eacacb
RGB
234, 202, 203
OKLCh
86.6% 0.036 15.7°
CIELAB (D50)
84.1, 11.7, 3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.2; on black, Lc -79.0. 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 13.6 and 15.7 and 36.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.52:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.81:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.81:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8c7071 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
#eacacb
protanopia
#cececb · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#d4d4ca · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#dbdb00 · ΔE00 36.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnglish Rosebud at ΔE00 0.465: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- English RosebudΔE00 0.465 · #e9c9cb
- Pink SpinelΔE00 0.717 · #e7c9ca
- Fantastic PinkΔE00 0.855 · #e6c8c9
- Pink CardoonΔE00 0.922 · #ecc9ca
- Girl TalkΔE00 1.29 · #e4c7c8
- NurseryΔE00 1.463 · #efd0d2
- Cranapple CreamΔE00 1.476 · #e6c4c5
- Kislev PinkΔE00 1.553 · #efcdcb
- Oh so PrettyΔE00 1.593 · #eac7cb
- Mauve MornΔE00 1.637 · #e7cccd
- Fairy FlossΔE00 1.746 · #ebc9c6
- Powdered PetalsΔE00 1.831 · #e3c7c6
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.