HueComb

Pastel Magenta

#f49ac2

A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#f49ac2

RGB

244, 154, 194

OKLCh

78.8% 0.117 351.9°

CIELAB (D50)

73.9, 38.4, -5.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 39.7; on black, Lc -62.6. 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 22.2 and 22.9 and 57.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.05:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.25:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.25:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#af5c83 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

#f49ac2

protanopia

#a7a7c2 · ΔE00 22.2

deuteranopia

#babac0 · ΔE00 22.9

tritanopia

#cdcd00 · ΔE00 57.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBe My Valentine at ΔE00 1.821: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.