Grandma’s Pink Tiles
#e0b8c0
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
#e0b8c0
RGB
224, 184, 192
OKLCh
82.0% 0.047 4.7°
CIELAB (D50)
78.5, 15.8, 1.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.8; on black, Lc -69.8. 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 15.2 and 17.7 and 41.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.78:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.79:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.79:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#916d75 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
#e0b8c0
protanopia
#bdbdc0 · ΔE00 15.2
deuteranopia
#c5c5bf · ΔE00 17.7
tritanopia
#cdcd00 · ΔE00 41.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLove in a Mist at ΔE00 0.457: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Love in a MistΔE00 0.457 · #e1b9c2
- MelanieΔE00 1.103 · #e0b7c2
- Puppy LoveΔE00 1.221 · #e2babf
- Heart’s ContentΔE00 1.438 · #e2b5bd
- Seven VeilsΔE00 1.47 · #e3b8bd
- HosannaΔE00 1.489 · #dbb8bf
- Shy Young SalmonΔE00 1.523 · #dfb8bc
- Strawberry GlazeΔE00 1.56 · #dab7be
- Pink SoftnessΔE00 1.585 · #deb8bc
- Ice Hot PinkΔE00 1.624 · #e4bdc2
- PentalonΔE00 1.64 · #dbb2bc
- Acadia BloomΔE00 1.704 · #e5b7be
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.