Embarrassed
#ee7799
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee7799
RGB
238, 119, 153
OKLCh
71.5% 0.150 3.5°
CIELAB (D50)
65.1, 49.3, 4.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 52.2; on black, Lc -49.7. 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 25.8 and 31.7 and 57.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.72:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.73:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.73:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c24f73 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
#ee7799
protanopia
#8b8b9a · ΔE00 25.8
deuteranopia
#a6a696 · ΔE00 31.7
tritanopia
#bebe00 · ΔE00 57.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Carnation at ΔE00 1.218: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pink CarnationΔE00 1.218 · #ed7a9e
- So CharmingΔE00 2.187 · #ec7a93
- Iced BerryΔE00 2.493 · #e9819a
- Pink SherbetΔE00 2.549 · #f780a1
- Out of FashionΔE00 2.599 · #f26d8f
- LovelandΔE00 2.705 · #e6718d
- HopeΔE00 2.876 · #e581a0
- God’s Own Junkyard PinkΔE00 2.88 · #f56991
- Frosty BerryΔE00 2.941 · #e1809a
- CarissimaΔE00 3.14 · #e68095
- Aggressive SalmonΔE00 3.185 · #ff7799
- French PinkΔE00 3.22 · #fd6c9e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.