HueComb

Shy Young Salmon

#dfb8bc

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

#dfb8bc

RGB

223, 184, 188

OKLCh

81.8% 0.045 11.2°

CIELAB (D50)

78.4, 14.9, 3.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 33.1; on black, Lc -69.5. 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 15.3 and 18.2 and 39.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.79:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.72:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.72:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#916e72 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

#dfb8bc

protanopia

#bdbdbc · ΔE00 15.3

deuteranopia

#c4c4bb · ΔE00 18.2

tritanopia

#cccc00 · ΔE00 39.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Softness at ΔE00 0.292: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pink SoftnessΔE00 0.292 · #deb8bc
  • Puppy LoveΔE00 0.739 · #e2babf
  • Pencil EraserΔE00 0.969 · #dbb7bb
  • Mystic MauveΔE00 1.036 · #dbb7ba
  • Seven VeilsΔE00 1.166 · #e3b8bd
  • Crystalline PinkΔE00 1.29 · #debbbf
  • Ice Hot PinkΔE00 1.331 · #e4bdc2
  • Grandma’s Pink TilesΔE00 1.523 · #e0b8c0
  • Pink FlareΔE00 1.686 · #d8b4b6
  • Rosy AuraΔE00 1.699 · #d8b3b9
  • HosannaΔE00 1.718 · #dbb8bf
  • Strawberry GlazeΔE00 1.764 · #dab7be

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