HueComb

Angry Ghost

#eebbbb

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

#eebbbb

RGB

238, 187, 187

OKLCh

83.8% 0.059 18.4°

CIELAB (D50)

80.5, 18.9, 7.4

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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.9; on black, Lc -73.0. 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 19.6 and 22.9 and 39.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.46:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.46:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#996b6b 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

#eebbbb

protanopia

#c2c2bb · ΔE00 19.6

deuteranopia

#ccccba · ΔE00 22.9

tritanopia

#d6d600 · ΔE00 39.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarzipan Pink at ΔE00 0.787: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Marzipan PinkΔE00 0.787 · #eebabc
  • Blush RushΔE00 0.842 · #f0bcbe
  • PinkathonΔE00 1.276 · #f1bdba
  • Summer CocktailsΔE00 1.364 · #ecb6b5
  • Star of the MorningΔE00 1.401 · #ebbbbe
  • Princess BrideΔE00 1.462 · #f4c1c1
  • Silver StrawberryΔE00 1.466 · #f2c1c0
  • Arizona SunriseΔE00 1.504 · #ebbcb9
  • Seashell FrothΔE00 1.538 · #edb9bd
  • Pink SachetΔE00 1.553 · #eebcb8
  • Cor-de-PeleΔE00 1.665 · #f4c2c2
  • Naked RoseΔE00 1.727 · #ebb5b3

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