HueComb

In the Pink

#f4c4d0

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

#f4c4d0

RGB

244, 196, 208

OKLCh

86.6% 0.057 1.7°

CIELAB (D50)

83.7, 19.0, 0.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.8; on black, Lc -78.3. 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 16.9 and 19.3 and 44.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#966b76 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

#f4c4d0

protanopia

#cacad0 · ΔE00 16.9

deuteranopia

#d4d4cf · ΔE00 19.3

tritanopia

#dddd00 · ΔE00 44.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSullivan’s Heart at ΔE00 0.602: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sullivan’s HeartΔE00 0.602 · #f7c5d1
  • Azalea FlowerΔE00 1.099 · #efc0cb
  • Hello DollyΔE00 1.23 · #f3c7d1
  • Deco PinkΔE00 1.338 · #f6c2cc
  • Mountain LaurelΔE00 1.366 · #f4c8d5
  • Palace RoseΔE00 1.405 · #f8cad5
  • Rose MelodyΔE00 1.683 · #ecbfc9
  • Carnation BouquetΔE00 1.711 · #f5c0d0
  • Oh so PinkΔE00 1.769 · #f1c7d0
  • Rose ShadowΔE00 1.785 · #f9c2cd
  • Utterly PinkΔE00 1.891 · #f5c8d8
  • Desire PinkΔE00 1.929 · #eec5d2

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.