Oh so Pink
#f1c7d0
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
#f1c7d0
RGB
241, 199, 208
OKLCh
86.8% 0.049 3.7°
CIELAB (D50)
84.1, 16.4, 1.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 20 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 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.1; on black, Lc -79.0. 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 15.5 and 18.0 and 42.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.52:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.82:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.82:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#926d75 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
#f1c7d0
protanopia
#ccccd0 · ΔE00 15.5
deuteranopia
#d4d4cf · ΔE00 18.0
tritanopia
#dddd00 · ΔE00 42.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Satin at ΔE00 0.593: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Soft SatinΔE00 0.593 · #eec5ce
- Hello DollyΔE00 0.609 · #f3c7d1
- Pink LaceΔE00 1.393 · #f6ccd7
- Pale PrimroseΔE00 1.405 · #eec8d3
- Energetic PinkΔE00 1.435 · #f3c6cc
- Mountain LaurelΔE00 1.481 · #f4c8d5
- Palace RoseΔE00 1.502 · #f8cad5
- Desire PinkΔE00 1.561 · #eec5d2
- Old Fashioned PinkΔE00 1.612 · #f4c6cc
- Funny FaceΔE00 1.693 · #edc8ce
- Light BlushΔE00 1.717 · #e9c4cc
- In the PinkΔE00 1.769 · #f4c4d0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.