HueComb

Soft Cashmere

#efb6d8

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

#efb6d8

RGB

239, 182, 216

OKLCh

83.8% 0.079 342.4°

CIELAB (D50)

80.1, 25.1, -8.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.3; on black, Lc -72.5. 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 17.4 and 18.1 and 53.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.70:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.35:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.35:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9a6787 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

#efb6d8

protanopia

#bebed8 · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#c9c9d7 · ΔE00 18.1

tritanopia

#d5d500 · ΔE00 53.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCotton Candy Aesthetic at ΔE00 1.467: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.