HueComb

Pink Mist

#e6bccd

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

#e6bccd

RGB

230, 188, 205

OKLCh

83.7% 0.053 352.1°

CIELAB (D50)

80.4, 17.5, -2.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.0; on black, Lc -72.8. 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 15.3 and 16.1 and 45.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#926c7c 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

#e6bccd

protanopia

#c1c1cd · ΔE00 15.3

deuteranopia

#c9c9cc · ΔE00 16.1

tritanopia

#d2d200 · ΔE00 45.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChildlike at ΔE00 1.155: 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.