HueComb

Chantilly

#edb8c7

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

#edb8c7

RGB

237, 184, 199

OKLCh

83.5% 0.064 359.8°

CIELAB (D50)

80.0, 21.4, 0.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.6; on black, Lc -72.1. 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 17.9 and 20.2 and 46.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.71:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.28:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.28:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#996978 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

#edb8c7

protanopia

#bfbfc7 · ΔE00 17.9

deuteranopia

#c9c9c6 · ΔE00 20.2

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 46.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMadder Rose at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Madder RoseΔE00 0.914 · #eebbcb
  • Athena PinkΔE00 1.004 · #e9b4c3
  • Cameo PinkΔE00 1.048 · #efbbcc
  • Pink GrapefruitΔE00 1.178 · #f3bac9
  • Berries N’ CreamΔE00 1.329 · #f2b8ca
  • Christy’s SmileΔE00 1.752 · #f6bbca
  • Fallen BlossomsΔE00 1.803 · #edb2c4
  • Pink ChintzΔE00 1.828 · #efbecf
  • Dainty PinkΔE00 1.915 · #ecbcce
  • Japanese Rose GardenΔE00 1.92 · #e4b6c4
  • Carnation BouquetΔE00 1.997 · #f5c0d0
  • Pink DestinyΔE00 2.053 · #f5bfd1

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