LA Vibes

#eeccdd

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

#eeccdd

RGB

238, 204, 221

OKLCh

87.9% 0.044 346.4°

CIELAB (D50)

85.3, 14.4, -3.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.1; on black, Lc -81.2. 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 13.1 and 13.7 and 44.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8d6e7e 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

#eeccdd

protanopia

#d0d0dd · ΔE00 13.1

deuteranopia

#d7d7dc · ΔE00 13.7

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 44.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMinimal Rose at ΔE00 0.8: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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