Blackberry Yoghurt
#e5bddf
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
#e5bddf
RGB
229, 189, 223
OKLCh
84.4% 0.064 331.2°
CIELAB (D50)
81.0, 19.0, -11.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.0; on black, Lc -73.9. 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 13.7 and 14.1 and 51.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.66:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.68:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.68:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#906b8b 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
#e5bddf
protanopia
#c2c2df · ΔE00 13.7
deuteranopia
#cacade · ΔE00 14.1
tritanopia
#d2d200 · ΔE00 51.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweetie Pie at ΔE00 0.914: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sweetie PieΔE00 0.914 · #e1bbdb
- PosiesΔE00 1.549 · #dfbbd9
- Romantic BalladΔE00 1.566 · #e0bedf
- French LilacΔE00 1.58 · #deb7d9
- Designer PinkΔE00 1.823 · #e1bcd8
- Romantic MorningΔE00 1.84 · #ddbbdd
- Prom CorsageΔE00 1.878 · #e7c3e7
- Sweet AlyssumΔE00 2.013 · #e7c2de
- Pink PeonyΔE00 2.17 · #e1bed9
- Pink DrinkΔE00 2.195 · #e9b8de
- Faded VioletΔE00 2.4 · #ddbedd
- Lavender SoapΔE00 2.626 · #f1bfe2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.