HueComb

Pink Macaroon

#eaacc6

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

#eaacc6

RGB

234, 172, 198

OKLCh

81.0% 0.080 352.1°

CIELAB (D50)

76.9, 26.2, -3.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 35.4; on black, Lc -67.2. 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 19.1 and 20.0 and 51.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.87:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9e667f 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

#eaacc6

protanopia

#b4b4c6 · ΔE00 19.1

deuteranopia

#c1c1c5 · ΔE00 20.0

tritanopia

#cece00 · ΔE00 51.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLittle Princess at ΔE00 1.123: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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