Pulp

#e18289

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

Hex

#e18289

RGB

225, 130, 137

OKLCh

71.1% 0.117 15.8°

CIELAB (D50)

65.2, 38.0, 13.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.2; on black, Lc -49.7. 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 26.5 and 31.2 and 47.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.71:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b65b63 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

#e18289

protanopia

#91918a · ΔE00 26.5

deuteranopia

#a5a586 · ΔE00 31.2

tritanopia

#b9b900 · ΔE00 47.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTrue Love at ΔE00 1.58: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • True LoveΔE00 1.58 · #e27e8a
  • DimpleΔE00 1.658 · #e9808b
  • Rhubarb PieΔE00 1.876 · #d78187
  • Hot GossipΔE00 2.087 · #e07c89
  • Peach BlossomΔE00 2.152 · #dc7a83
  • Peaches of ImmortalityΔE00 2.277 · #d98586
  • Apple ValleyΔE00 2.364 · #ea8386
  • Strawberry IceΔE00 2.383 · #e78b90
  • Pink ChiΔE00 2.418 · #e4898a
  • Finest BlushΔE00 2.5 · #dd8888
  • Boho BlushΔE00 2.583 · #e58787
  • Victorian RougeΔE00 2.845 · #d28085

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