HueComb

Pearly Pink

#ee99cc

A magenta that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ee99cc

RGB

238, 153, 204

OKLCh

78.3% 0.119 343.4°

CIELAB (D50)

73.2, 37.9, -12.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 40.6; on black, Lc -61.7. 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 21.0 and 20.9 and 60.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.09:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.06:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.06:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ab5c8d 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

#ee99cc

protanopia

#a6a6cc · ΔE00 21.0

deuteranopia

#b7b7ca · ΔE00 20.9

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 60.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlossoms in Spring at ΔE00 1.373: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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