Pink Bliss
#e3abce
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
#e3abce
RGB
227, 171, 206
OKLCh
80.3% 0.080 341.1°
CIELAB (D50)
76.1, 25.2, -9.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.4; on black, Lc -66.0. 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 17.2 and 17.9 and 53.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.91:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.98:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.98:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#9a6788 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
#e3abce
protanopia
#b2b2ce · ΔE00 17.2
deuteranopia
#bebecd · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 53.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Pearl at ΔE00 0.814: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink PearlΔE00 0.814 · #e7accf
- Dreamy PinkΔE00 0.887 · #dfabcd
- Flower PowerΔE00 0.999 · #e6aed3
- Pink PlungeΔE00 1.116 · #e4add3
- Aristocratic PinkΔE00 1.231 · #ddaacc
- Roses in the SnowΔE00 1.521 · #e7aecd
- GumballΔE00 2.055 · #e7b2d0
- Lofty DelightΔE00 2.336 · #d9a9c6
- Coral Corn SnakeΔE00 2.421 · #e9adca
- Pink GemsΔE00 2.598 · #e6b5d7
- Pink BeautyΔE00 2.637 · #dca7c2
- Party TimeΔE00 2.689 · #e3a9c4
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.