HueComb

Ibis

#f4b3c2

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

#f4b3c2

RGB

244, 179, 194

OKLCh

83.1% 0.078 3.7°

CIELAB (D50)

79.5, 25.9, 2.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.5; on black, Lc -71.2. 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 20.1 and 24.2 and 47.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.74:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.07:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.07:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a16675 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

#f4b3c2

protanopia

#bcbcc2 · ΔE00 20.1

deuteranopia

#c9c9c0 · ΔE00 24.2

tritanopia

#d6d600 · ΔE00 47.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLove Spell at ΔE00 0.747: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.