Sprinkled With Pink
#e7a2ae
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e7a2ae
RGB
231, 162, 174
OKLCh
78.2% 0.083 7.7°
CIELAB (D50)
73.7, 27.5, 4.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.2; on black, Lc -62.2. 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 21.0 and 26.3 and 46.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.06:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.18:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.18:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a46571 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
#e7a2ae
protanopia
#acacae · ΔE00 21.0
deuteranopia
#babaac · ΔE00 26.3
tritanopia
#c8c800 · ΔE00 46.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerry Riche at ΔE00 1.018: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Berry RicheΔE00 1.018 · #e5a2ab
- Love at First SightΔE00 1.121 · #e5a5b1
- PinqueΔE00 1.196 · #eca2ad
- Vintage VictorianΔE00 1.448 · #e59dac
- Brandywine SpritzΔE00 1.618 · #e69dad
- Nana’s RoseΔE00 1.783 · #de9eaa
- PrincessΔE00 1.908 · #f0a8b5
- Colorado DawnΔE00 1.989 · #e09cab
- Iced VovoΔE00 2.01 · #e1a4b2
- Strawberry SmoothieΔE00 2.017 · #e79ea6
- Faded PinkΔE00 2.207 · #de9dac
- Candy CoatedΔE00 2.25 · #ef9faa
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.