HueComb

Blush Bomb

#dd99aa

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

Hex

#dd99aa

RGB

221, 153, 170

OKLCh

75.4% 0.084 2.9°

CIELAB (D50)

70.4, 27.9, 1.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.8; on black, Lc -57.3. 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 20.8 and 24.9 and 47.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a46475 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

#dd99aa

protanopia

#a3a3aa · ΔE00 20.8

deuteranopia

#b1b1a8 · ΔE00 24.9

tritanopia

#bfbf00 · ΔE00 47.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Delight at ΔE00 0.979: 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.