Tussie-Mussie
#edc5d7
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
#edc5d7
RGB
237, 197, 215
OKLCh
86.3% 0.051 349.4°
CIELAB (D50)
83.4, 16.8, -3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.2; on black, Lc -77.9. 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 14.7 and 15.4 and 46.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.55:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.57:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.57:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#906d7d 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
#edc5d7
protanopia
#cacad7 · ΔE00 14.7
deuteranopia
#d2d2d6 · ΔE00 15.4
tritanopia
#dada00 · ΔE00 46.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLily Legs at ΔE00 1.074: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lily LegsΔE00 1.074 · #eec7d6
- Misty MemoriesΔE00 1.153 · #eac3d2
- Persian DelightΔE00 1.398 · #efcada
- British RoseΔE00 1.401 · #f4c8db
- CandytuftΔE00 1.546 · #edc9d8
- ChildlikeΔE00 1.609 · #e8c0cf
- Baby StepsΔE00 1.647 · #f5c9da
- Merry PinkΔE00 1.756 · #eac8da
- Laelia PinkΔE00 1.77 · #f5c8dd
- Desire PinkΔE00 1.782 · #eec5d2
- Dreamy MemoryΔE00 1.81 · #e8c3d9
- Guava GlowΔE00 1.815 · #eec0d2
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.