HueComb

Mental Floss

#deb4c5

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

#deb4c5

RGB

222, 180, 197

OKLCh

81.2% 0.053 352.1°

CIELAB (D50)

77.5, 17.7, -2.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.4; on black, Lc -68.2. 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 15.4 and 16.2 and 45.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.84:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.44:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.44:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#926c7c 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

#deb4c5

protanopia

#b9b9c5 · ΔE00 15.4

deuteranopia

#c2c2c4 · ΔE00 16.2

tritanopia

#caca00 · ΔE00 45.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKunzite at ΔE00 0.889: 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.