Summer Crush
#f2d6da
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
#f2d6da
RGB
242, 214, 218
OKLCh
90.0% 0.032 8.0°
CIELAB (D50)
88.1, 10.5, 1.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 31 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 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.8; on black, Lc -85.8. 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 11.6 and 13.4 and 36.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.41:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.41:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#897174 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
#f2d6da
protanopia
#d9d9da · ΔE00 11.6
deuteranopia
#dfdfd9 · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#e4e441 · ΔE00 36.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEliza Jane at ΔE00 0.583: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Eliza JaneΔE00 0.583 · #f4d7dc
- CherubΔE00 0.819 · #f5d7dc
- AlyssumΔE00 0.902 · #f2d5d7
- FunhouseΔE00 0.968 · #f3d9dc
- Light Light BlushΔE00 0.986 · #eed2d7
- Pale RoseΔE00 1.014 · #efd6da
- Cradle PillowΔE00 1.158 · #f1d3d9
- RedneckΔE00 1.265 · #f5d6d8
- Carousel PinkΔE00 1.279 · #f8dbe0
- Impatiens PetalΔE00 1.283 · #f1d2d7
- Fairy PrincessΔE00 1.374 · #f6dbdd
- PineberryΔE00 1.391 · #f0d6dd
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.