Heart’s Content
#e2b5bd
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
#e2b5bd
RGB
226, 181, 189
OKLCh
81.5% 0.053 6.4°
CIELAB (D50)
78.0, 17.7, 2.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.8; on black, Lc -68.8. 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 16.5 and 19.6 and 41.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.81:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#956c74 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
#e2b5bd
protanopia
#bbbbbd · ΔE00 16.5
deuteranopia
#c4c4bc · ΔE00 19.6
tritanopia
#cdcd00 · ΔE00 41.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAcadia Bloom at ΔE00 0.73: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Acadia BloomΔE00 0.73 · #e5b7be
- Premium PinkΔE00 0.882 · #e6b6be
- Seven VeilsΔE00 1.319 · #e3b8bd
- Roseate HuesΔE00 1.416 · #e7b6bc
- Grandma’s Pink TilesΔE00 1.438 · #e0b8c0
- SakuraΔE00 1.558 · #dfb1b6
- Love in a MistΔE00 1.634 · #e1b9c2
- Peppermint StickΔE00 1.676 · #e8b9be
- MelanieΔE00 1.677 · #e0b7c2
- PentalonΔE00 1.7 · #dbb2bc
- Puppy LoveΔE00 1.904 · #e2babf
- Amazon River DolphinΔE00 2.037 · #e6b2b8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.