Perfect Pink
#e5b3b2
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
#e5b3b2
RGB
229, 179, 178
OKLCh
81.2% 0.058 19.8°
CIELAB (D50)
77.5, 18.6, 7.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.5; on black, Lc -68.1. 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 19.7 and 22.8 and 39.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#996b6b 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
#e5b3b2
protanopia
#babab2 · ΔE00 19.7
deuteranopia
#c3c3b1 · ΔE00 22.8
tritanopia
#cece00 · ΔE00 39.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChewing Gum at ΔE00 1.086: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chewing GumΔE00 1.086 · #e6b0af
- Pink DustΔE00 1.112 · #e4b5b2
- Strawberry YoghurtΔE00 1.207 · #e9b3b4
- Naked RoseΔE00 1.269 · #ebb5b3
- Summer CocktailsΔE00 1.38 · #ecb6b5
- Camille PinkΔE00 1.873 · #eeb5b4
- Deeply EmbarrassedΔE00 1.956 · #ecb2b3
- Grim PinkΔE00 1.972 · #deadaf
- Bistro PinkΔE00 1.993 · #e3b8b7
- Pale ChestnutΔE00 2.076 · #ddadaf
- Pink StockΔE00 2.113 · #ddabab
- PeachskinΔE00 2.12 · #ddb3b2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.