HueComb

Love Dust

#eb94da

A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#eb94da

RGB

235, 148, 218

OKLCh

77.7% 0.136 334.2°

CIELAB (D50)

72.2, 41.1, -21.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.9; on black, Lc -60.3. 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 20.7 and 19.5 and 64.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ab599d 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

#eb94da

protanopia

#a1a1da · ΔE00 20.7

deuteranopia

#b3b3d8 · ΔE00 19.5

tritanopia

#c5c500 · ΔE00 64.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMayflower Orchid at ΔE00 0.92: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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