Decadial Pink
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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
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RGB
222, 202, 222
OKLCh
86.1% 0.035 325.9°
CIELAB (D50)
83.5, 9.8, -7.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.0; on black, Lc -78.1. 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 8.6 and 8.9 and 32.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.54:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837183 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
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protanopia
#ccccde · ΔE00 8.6
deuteranopia
#d0d0de · ΔE00 8.9
tritanopia
#d4d497 · ΔE00 32.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOrchid Shimmer at ΔE00 0.744: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Orchid ShimmerΔE00 0.744 · #e1ccdf
- Euphoric LilacΔE00 0.913 · #dac7da
- Grape GlimmerΔE00 1.082 · #dccae0
- Pouf of PinkΔE00 1.71 · #decce4
- Lilac LaneΔE00 1.831 · #dfcbda
- Hampstead HeathΔE00 1.946 · #d9cadf
- Simply LavenderΔE00 1.955 · #dac4dc
- Naughty MariettaΔE00 1.976 · #e3ccdc
- Syrian VioletΔE00 2.026 · #dfcae4
- Diva GirlΔE00 2.045 · #e1cbda
- Sweety PieΔE00 2.075 · #e7cee3
- Footie PyjamasΔE00 2.129 · #e6cee6
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.