HueComb

Pinky Swear

#eeaaee

A magenta that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#eeaaee

RGB

238, 170, 238

OKLCh

82.4% 0.118 326.6°

CIELAB (D50)

77.9, 33.7, -23.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.5; on black, Lc -69.1. 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 17.1 and 16.2 and 63.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.81:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.62:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.62:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9f60a0 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

#eeaaee

protanopia

#b3b3ee · ΔE00 17.1

deuteranopia

#c1c1ed · ΔE00 16.2

tritanopia

#cfcf00 · ΔE00 63.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Dreams at ΔE00 1.964: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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