Starlet Pink
#edc2db
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
#edc2db
RGB
237, 194, 219
OKLCh
85.9% 0.059 342.6°
CIELAB (D50)
82.8, 18.8, -6.4
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 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.1; on black, Lc -76.9. 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 15.1 and 15.7 and 49.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.57:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.34:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.34:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#926b82 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
#edc2db
protanopia
#c7c7db · ΔE00 15.1
deuteranopia
#d0d0da · ΔE00 15.7
tritanopia
#d9d900 · ΔE00 49.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar Sweet at ΔE00 0.83: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sugar SweetΔE00 0.83 · #ecc4dc
- Pink OdysseyΔE00 0.944 · #edc5dd
- Venetian RoseΔE00 1.267 · #efc6e1
- Sweet MurmurΔE00 1.294 · #ecc5df
- Child’s PlayΔE00 1.508 · #e7bcd4
- Dreamy MemoryΔE00 1.668 · #e8c3d9
- Parrot TulipΔE00 1.669 · #eebfd5
- Cherry CordialΔE00 1.755 · #ebbed3
- Sweet TaffyΔE00 1.83 · #ecbcd4
- Rosy NectarΔE00 1.901 · #f2c2e1
- Dog RoseΔE00 1.951 · #e5c1d9
- SweetheartΔE00 2.084 · #f3c3d8
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.