Discrete Pink

#ebdbdd

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#ebdbdd

RGB

235, 219, 221

OKLCh

90.5% 0.018 8.8°

CIELAB (D50)

88.8, 5.9, 1.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

35 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 only 35% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.6; on black, Lc -87.1. 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 7.4 and 8.3 and 24.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.34:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#817375 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

#ebdbdd

protanopia

#dddddd · ΔE00 7.4

deuteranopia

#e0e0dd · ΔE00 8.3

tritanopia

#e3e3a1 · ΔE00 24.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAngelic Choir at ΔE00 0.627: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Angelic ChoirΔE00 0.627 · #e9d9dc
Diminished RedΔE00 0.677 · #e8d8da
Red EmulsionΔE00 0.904 · #e9dbde
Reduced RedΔE00 0.908 · #efdedf
Silk SheetsΔE00 0.942 · #efdddf
Winter SunriseΔE00 0.95 · #e8dadd
Cupid’s RevengeΔE00 0.966 · #eedcdf
Death CapΔE00 0.968 · #e7d9db
St. Nicholas BeardΔE00 1.069 · #eedddd
Ballerina SilkΔE00 1.083 · #f0dee0
Daring DeceptionΔE00 1.087 · #f0dfe0
Relieved RedΔE00 1.178 · #e9dbdf

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