Sweetheart
#f3c3d8
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
#f3c3d8
RGB
243, 195, 216
OKLCh
86.5% 0.061 350.4°
CIELAB (D50)
83.6, 20.1, -3.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.0; on black, Lc -78.1. 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 16.5 and 17.2 and 48.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.54:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#956a7e 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
#f3c3d8
protanopia
#c9c9d8 · ΔE00 16.5
deuteranopia
#d3d3d7 · ΔE00 17.2
tritanopia
#dcdc00 · ΔE00 48.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMiami Pink at ΔE00 1.019: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Miami PinkΔE00 1.019 · #f7c3da
- Parrot TulipΔE00 1.103 · #eebfd5
- Cherry BlossomΔE00 1.137 · #f5c1d5
- Laelia PinkΔE00 1.267 · #f5c8dd
- Guava GlowΔE00 1.307 · #eec0d2
- British RoseΔE00 1.413 · #f4c8db
- Cherry CordialΔE00 1.568 · #ebbed3
- Pink ChintzΔE00 1.84 · #efbecf
- Baby StepsΔE00 1.844 · #f5c9da
- Utterly PinkΔE00 1.886 · #f5c8d8
- Sweet TaffyΔE00 1.907 · #ecbcd4
- Dainty PinkΔE00 1.99 · #ecbcce
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.