Pink Prestige
#ee99aa
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee99aa
RGB
238, 153, 170
OKLCh
77.3% 0.104 6.7°
CIELAB (D50)
72.4, 34.3, 5.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.0; on black, Lc -60.2. 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 22.9 and 28.7 and 50.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.15:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.77:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.77:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ae5f70 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
#ee99aa
protanopia
#a6a6aa · ΔE00 22.9
deuteranopia
#b7b7a8 · ΔE00 28.7
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 50.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPiggy at ΔE00 0.369: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- PiggyΔE00 0.369 · #ef98aa
- Pink MomentΔE00 0.381 · #ed9aab
- Flower GirlΔE00 1.358 · #f498ad
- Sweet 60ΔE00 1.706 · #f29eab
- Second BlushΔE00 1.71 · #e89aad
- Candy CoatedΔE00 2.115 · #ef9faa
- Brandywine SpritzΔE00 2.143 · #e69dad
- Vintage VictorianΔE00 2.256 · #e59dac
- IllusionΔE00 2.289 · #ef95ae
- AstilbeΔE00 2.364 · #f091a9
- PinqueΔE00 2.638 · #eca2ad
- Emperor’s ChildrenΔE00 2.716 · #f0a0b6
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.