HueComb

Elastic Pink

#eca6ca

A pink that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#eca6ca

RGB

236, 166, 202

OKLCh

80.2% 0.094 347.2°

CIELAB (D50)

75.8, 30.4, -7.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.9; on black, Lc -65.6. 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 19.6 and 20.4 and 55.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.93:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.87:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.87:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a36385 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

#eca6ca

protanopia

#b0b0ca · ΔE00 19.6

deuteranopia

#bebec8 · ΔE00 20.4

tritanopia

#cccc00 · ΔE00 55.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWaddles Pink at ΔE00 1.008: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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