Scented Spring
#eed5ee
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
#eed5ee
RGB
238, 213, 238
OKLCh
90.1% 0.043 325.9°
CIELAB (D50)
87.9, 12.2, -9.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 48% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.8; on black, Lc -85.7. 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 10.0 and 10.3 and 37.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.39:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.39:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867086 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
#eed5ee
protanopia
#d8d8ee · ΔE00 10.0
deuteranopia
#dddded · ΔE00 10.3
tritanopia
#e2e291 · ΔE00 37.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGrape Taffy at ΔE00 1.395: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Grape TaffyΔE00 1.395 · #f4daf1
- Little TouchΔE00 1.462 · #e7cfe8
- InfatuationΔE00 1.582 · #f0d5ea
- Footie PyjamasΔE00 1.718 · #e6cee6
- Lavender PrincessΔE00 1.737 · #e9d2ef
- Lilacs in SpringΔE00 1.746 · #e9cfe5
- Sweety PieΔE00 2.119 · #e7cee3
- Sweet DreamsΔE00 2.284 · #eccee5
- Poodle PinkΔE00 2.591 · #eecee6
- First LilacΔE00 2.725 · #e7d6ed
- Champagne EleganceΔE00 2.757 · #ebd3e4
- Sonora RoseΔE00 2.91 · #e8d2e3
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.