HueComb

Sweet Lilac

#e8b5ce

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

#e8b5ce

RGB

232, 181, 206

OKLCh

82.6% 0.067 347.7°

CIELAB (D50)

78.9, 21.9, -5.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.2; on black, Lc -70.5. 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 17.0 and 17.7 and 49.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.76:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#976981 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

#e8b5ce

protanopia

#bcbcce · ΔE00 17.0

deuteranopia

#c6c6cd · ΔE00 17.7

tritanopia

#d0d000 · 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 isMuddy Mauve at ΔE00 0.795: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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