HueComb

Fallen Blossoms

#edb2c4

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

#edb2c4

RGB

237, 178, 196

OKLCh

82.3% 0.072 358.8°

CIELAB (D50)

78.5, 24.1, -0.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 11 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.9; on black, Lc -69.8. 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 19.0 and 21.2 and 48.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.78:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.77:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.77:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9d6779 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

#edb2c4

protanopia

#babac4 · ΔE00 19.0

deuteranopia

#c6c6c3 · ΔE00 21.2

tritanopia

#d2d200 · ΔE00 48.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRhodonite at ΔE00 1.221: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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