Blush Kiss
#eabcc0
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
#eabcc0
RGB
234, 188, 192
OKLCh
83.7% 0.053 12.4°
CIELAB (D50)
80.5, 17.5, 4.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.9; on black, Lc -72.9. 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 17.2 and 20.7 and 40.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.69:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.45:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.45:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#956c70 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
#eabcc0
protanopia
#c2c2c0 · ΔE00 17.2
deuteranopia
#cbcbbf · ΔE00 20.7
tritanopia
#d4d400 · ΔE00 40.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWind Rose at ΔE00 0.637: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Wind RoseΔE00 0.637 · #e8babd
- Star of the MorningΔE00 0.676 · #ebbbbe
- Peppermint StickΔE00 0.8 · #e8b9be
- Cat NoseΔE00 1.196 · #ecbac0
- LoveableΔE00 1.363 · #f0c1c6
- Seven VeilsΔE00 1.467 · #e3b8bd
- Seashell FrothΔE00 1.537 · #edb9bd
- Roseate HuesΔE00 1.636 · #e7b6bc
- Acadia BloomΔE00 1.639 · #e5b7be
- Cafe PinkΔE00 1.687 · #ecc1c2
- Marzipan PinkΔE00 1.734 · #eebabc
- Blush RushΔE00 1.749 · #f0bcbe
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.