Rose Elegance
#e9a1b8
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e9a1b8
RGB
233, 161, 184
OKLCh
78.5% 0.090 358.6°
CIELAB (D50)
73.9, 29.8, -0.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.8; on black, Lc -62.5. 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 20.9 and 23.7 and 50.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.05:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.25:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.25:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a56379 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
#e9a1b8
protanopia
#ababb8 · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#babab6 · ΔE00 23.7
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 50.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFussy Pink at ΔE00 0.942: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fussy PinkΔE00 0.942 · #e6a3b9
- Pegeen PeonyΔE00 1.106 · #ea9fb4
- Always RoseyΔE00 1.13 · #e79db3
- Alien Conspiracy PinkΔE00 1.298 · #f0a3bc
- Blushing TulipΔE00 1.307 · #e3a1b8
- Tickled PinkΔE00 1.633 · #efa7bf
- Pink ChalkΔE00 1.674 · #f2a3bd
- Garden PartyΔE00 1.714 · #e3a4b8
- Emperor’s ChildrenΔE00 1.748 · #f0a0b6
- Hushed RoseΔE00 1.924 · #eea5c1
- Carnal PinkΔE00 1.968 · #ef9cb5
- Prism PinkΔE00 2.052 · #f0a1bf
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.