HueComb

Sugar High

#efc9ec

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

#efc9ec

RGB

239, 201, 236

OKLCh

87.9% 0.063 328.6°

CIELAB (D50)

85.1, 18.2, -12.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.4; on black, Lc -80.8. 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 13.0 and 13.4 and 52.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.48:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e6c8c 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

#efc9ec

protanopia

#ceceec · ΔE00 13.0

deuteranopia

#d5d5eb · ΔE00 13.4

tritanopia

#dddd00 · ΔE00 52.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBubblegum Crisis at ΔE00 1.139: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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