HueComb

Muddy Mauve

#e4b3cc

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

#e4b3cc

RGB

228, 179, 204

OKLCh

81.8% 0.065 346.6°

CIELAB (D50)

78.0, 21.2, -5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.6; on black, Lc -69.0. 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 16.6 and 17.3 and 49.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.81:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#966a81 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

#e4b3cc

protanopia

#b9b9cc · ΔE00 16.6

deuteranopia

#c3c3cb · ΔE00 17.3

tritanopia

#cdcd00 · ΔE00 49.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Lilac at ΔE00 0.795: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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