Pink Floyd
#eb9a9d
A red that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#eb9a9d
RGB
235, 154, 157
OKLCh
76.8% 0.097 17.2°
CIELAB (D50)
72.0, 31.4, 11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.7; on black, Lc -59.5. 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 25.3 and 29.1 and 45.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.64:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.64:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ac6165 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
#eb9a9d
protanopia
#a6a69d · ΔE00 25.3
deuteranopia
#b7b79b · ΔE00 29.1
tritanopia
#c7c700 · ΔE00 45.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRiver Rouge at ΔE00 0.429: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- River RougeΔE00 0.429 · #ec9b9d
- All Dressed UpΔE00 1.051 · #e6999d
- Franken BerryΔE00 1.223 · #e5989c
- Funki PorciniΔE00 1.402 · #ee9999
- Cosy Summer SunsetΔE00 1.506 · #eb9f9f
- Marker PinkΔE00 1.791 · #e3969b
- Plum BlossomΔE00 1.809 · #f2a0a1
- Pink IcingΔE00 1.971 · #eea0a6
- Mexicali RoseΔE00 2.215 · #e39b99
- Peach BurstΔE00 2.343 · #f39998
- Primrose GardenΔE00 2.346 · #f3949b
- Wood NymphΔE00 2.385 · #eba0a7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.