HueComb

Soft Blush

#e3bcbc

A red 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

#e3bcbc

RGB

227, 188, 188

OKLCh

82.9% 0.045 18.1°

CIELAB (D50)

79.7, 14.4, 5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.1; on black, Lc -71.7. 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 16.2 and 18.8 and 37.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.72:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#916e6e 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

#e3bcbc

protanopia

#c1c1bc · ΔE00 16.2

deuteranopia

#c8c8bb · ΔE00 18.8

tritanopia

#d0d000 · ΔE00 37.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Blush at ΔE00 1.11: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Sweet BlushΔE00 1.11 · #e6bfc1
  • Baby’s BootiesΔE00 1.314 · #e8c1c2
  • Bistro PinkΔE00 1.425 · #e3b8b7
  • Pink WraithΔE00 1.566 · #ddbbbb
  • O FortunaΔE00 1.624 · #e1b8b5
  • Balcony RoseΔE00 1.666 · #e2bcb8
  • Rose ColouredΔE00 1.672 · #dcb6b5
  • Miniature PoseyΔE00 1.675 · #e5beba
  • Pelican FeatherΔE00 1.756 · #e8c3c2
  • Cherry TreeΔE00 1.765 · #dfb7b4
  • Fizzing WhizbeesΔE00 1.813 · #ddbcbc
  • Shy Young SalmonΔE00 1.839 · #dfb8bc

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