HueComb

Bubblegum Crisis

#eeccee

A magenta 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

#eeccee

RGB

238, 204, 238

OKLCh

88.4% 0.059 326.1°

CIELAB (D50)

85.8, 16.6, -12.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.3; on black, Lc -82.0. 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 12.0 and 12.4 and 47.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.45:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.51:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.51:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8b6d8c 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

#eeccee

protanopia

#d0d0ee · ΔE00 12.0

deuteranopia

#d7d7ed · ΔE00 12.4

tritanopia

#dede59 · ΔE00 47.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSugar High at ΔE00 1.139: 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.