Piggy

#ef98aa

A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ef98aa

RGB

239, 152, 170

OKLCh

77.2% 0.106 6.4°

CIELAB (D50)

72.3, 35.1, 5.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.2; on black, Lc -60.1. 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 23.1 and 28.8 and 50.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.16:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#af5e71 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

#ef98aa

protanopia

#a5a5aa · ΔE00 23.1

deuteranopia

#b7b7a8 · ΔE00 28.8

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 50.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Prestige at ΔE00 0.369: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pink PrestigeΔE00 0.369 · #ee99aa
  • Pink MomentΔE00 0.676 · #ed9aab
  • Flower GirlΔE00 1.059 · #f498ad
  • Second BlushΔE00 1.838 · #e89aad
  • Sweet 60ΔE00 1.939 · #f29eab
  • AstilbeΔE00 2.026 · #f091a9
  • IllusionΔE00 2.032 · #ef95ae
  • Brandywine SpritzΔE00 2.419 · #e69dad
  • Candy CoatedΔE00 2.42 · #ef9faa
  • Vintage VictorianΔE00 2.555 · #e59dac
  • Unripe StrawberryΔE00 2.69 · #f78fa7
  • Wonder LustΔE00 2.718 · #ef8e9f

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