HueComb

Little Princess

#e6aac1

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

#e6aac1

RGB

230, 170, 193

OKLCh

80.0% 0.076 354.2°

CIELAB (D50)

75.9, 25.2, -2.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.9; on black, Lc -65.6. 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 19.0 and 19.9 and 49.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.93:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9e677d 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

#e6aac1

protanopia

#b2b2c1 · ΔE00 19.0

deuteranopia

#bebec0 · ΔE00 19.9

tritanopia

#cbcb00 · ΔE00 49.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Macaroon at ΔE00 1.123: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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