HueComb

Guava Glow

#eec0d2

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

#eec0d2

RGB

238, 192, 210

OKLCh

85.3% 0.057 353.0°

CIELAB (D50)

82.2, 19.0, -2.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 27.1; on black, Lc -75.9. 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 17.0 and 46.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.60:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.11:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.11:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#946b7c 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

#eec0d2

protanopia

#c6c6d2 · ΔE00 16.2

deuteranopia

#cfcfd1 · ΔE00 17.0

tritanopia

#d8d800 · ΔE00 46.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Chintz at ΔE00 0.955: 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.