HueComb

Sultan of Pink

#e89bc7

A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#e89bc7

RGB

232, 155, 199

OKLCh

77.8% 0.107 344.6°

CIELAB (D50)

72.8, 34.2, -10.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.2; on black, Lc -61.0. 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 20.1 and 20.6 and 57.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.11:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a7608a 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

#e89bc7

protanopia

#a6a6c7 · ΔE00 20.1

deuteranopia

#b6b6c5 · ΔE00 20.6

tritanopia

#c6c600 · ΔE00 57.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlossoms in Spring at ΔE00 1.357: 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.