Beefy Pink
#debeef
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
#debeef
RGB
222, 190, 239
OKLCh
84.5% 0.075 313.9°
CIELAB (D50)
81.0, 18.3, -20.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.8; on black, Lc -74.1. 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 9.9 and 9.9 and 45.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.65:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.72:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.72:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#896c99 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#debeef
protanopia
#c2c2ef · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#c8c8ee · ΔE00 9.9
tritanopia
#cfcf80 · ΔE00 45.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPretty Petunia at ΔE00 2.458: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Pretty PetuniaΔE00 2.458 · #d6b7e2
- Wisteria PowderΔE00 3.047 · #e6c8ff
- Aquarelle LilacΔE00 3.143 · #edc8ff
- Jane PurpleΔE00 3.253 · #e3c2ff
- Sparkling LavenderΔE00 3.515 · #eeccff
- Neon BoneyardΔE00 3.588 · #dfc5fe
- Foggy HeathΔE00 3.675 · #e2c9ff
- Lens Flare PinkΔE00 3.697 · #e4cbff
- York PlumΔE00 3.788 · #d3bfe5
- Light LavenderΔE00 3.927 · #efc0fe
- Rose DragéeΔE00 3.991 · #eecffe
- Sky Blue PinkΔE00 4.075 · #dcbfe1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.