HueComb

Land of Dreams

#edabe6

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

Hex

#edabe6

RGB

237, 171, 230

OKLCh

82.2% 0.108 330.2°

CIELAB (D50)

77.8, 31.8, -19.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.7; on black, Lc -68.9. 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 17.1 and 16.6 and 61.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.82:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.57:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.57:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9f6299 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

#edabe6

protanopia

#b4b4e6 · ΔE00 17.1

deuteranopia

#c1c1e5 · ΔE00 16.6

tritanopia

#cfcf00 · ΔE00 61.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Floss at ΔE00 1.119: 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.