Sweet Dreams
#eccee5
A magenta 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
#eccee5
RGB
236, 206, 229
OKLCh
88.3% 0.045 334.0°
CIELAB (D50)
85.8, 13.7, -7.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 49% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.3; on black, Lc -82.1. 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 11.7 and 12.1 and 42.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.45:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.53:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.53:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8a6f84 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
#eccee5
protanopia
#d2d2e5 · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#d7d7e4 · ΔE00 12.1
tritanopia
#dddd60 · ΔE00 42.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPoodle Pink at ΔE00 0.632: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Poodle PinkΔE00 0.632 · #eecee6
- Lilacs in SpringΔE00 1.239 · #e9cfe5
- Sweety PieΔE00 1.626 · #e7cee3
- InfatuationΔE00 1.78 · #f0d5ea
- Footie PyjamasΔE00 2.018 · #e6cee6
- Lacquer MauveΔE00 2.071 · #f0cfe1
- Little TouchΔE00 2.134 · #e7cfe8
- Pink PonyΔE00 2.245 · #eac7dc
- Wisteria WhisperΔE00 2.269 · #e4cadc
- Scented SpringΔE00 2.284 · #eed5ee
- Vanity PinkΔE00 2.333 · #e6ccdd
- Kiss Good NightΔE00 2.517 · #e5c8d9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.