Piggy
#ef98aa
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ef98aa
RGB
239, 152, 170
OKLCh
77.2% 0.106 6.4°
CIELAB (D50)
72.3, 35.1, 5.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 42.2; on black, Lc -60.1. 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 23.1 and 28.8 and 50.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#af5e71 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
#ef98aa
protanopia
#a5a5aa · ΔE00 23.1
deuteranopia
#b7b7a8 · ΔE00 28.8
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 50.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Prestige at ΔE00 0.369: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink PrestigeΔE00 0.369 · #ee99aa
- Pink MomentΔE00 0.676 · #ed9aab
- Flower GirlΔE00 1.059 · #f498ad
- Second BlushΔE00 1.838 · #e89aad
- Sweet 60ΔE00 1.939 · #f29eab
- AstilbeΔE00 2.026 · #f091a9
- IllusionΔE00 2.032 · #ef95ae
- Brandywine SpritzΔE00 2.419 · #e69dad
- Candy CoatedΔE00 2.42 · #ef9faa
- Vintage VictorianΔE00 2.555 · #e59dac
- Unripe StrawberryΔE00 2.69 · #f78fa7
- Wonder LustΔE00 2.718 · #ef8e9f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.