HueComb

Rosecco

#eebbdd

A magenta 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

#eebbdd

RGB

238, 187, 221

OKLCh

84.8% 0.073 338.9°

CIELAB (D50)

81.3, 22.9, -9.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.5; on black, Lc -74.4. 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 16.2 and 16.8 and 53.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.79:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.79:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#976988 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

#eebbdd

protanopia

#c2c2dd · ΔE00 16.2

deuteranopia

#ccccdc · ΔE00 16.8

tritanopia

#d6d600 · ΔE00 53.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBordeaux Hint at ΔE00 0.244: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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