HueComb

Berry Butter

#efcedc

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

#efcedc

RGB

239, 206, 220

OKLCh

88.3% 0.041 350.5°

CIELAB (D50)

85.9, 13.6, -2.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.2; on black, Lc -82.1. 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 12.9 and 13.6 and 43.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.45:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c6f7c 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

#efcedc

protanopia

#d2d2dc · ΔE00 12.9

deuteranopia

#d8d8db · ΔE00 13.6

tritanopia

#dfdf00 · ΔE00 43.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Pink at ΔE00 0.352: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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