Petal Pink
#f4e5e0
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f4e5e0
RGB
244, 229, 224
OKLCh
93.3% 0.018 39.4°
CIELAB (D50)
92.0, 4.7, 4.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 70 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.2; on black, Lc -92.9. 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 7.6 and 8.2 and 21.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.23:1 — fails AA
Black text
17.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at17.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#817470 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
#f4e5e0
protanopia
#e7e7e0 · ΔE00 7.6
deuteranopia
#eaeae0 · ΔE00 8.2
tritanopia
#ededa6 · ΔE00 21.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReverie Pink at ΔE00 0.473: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Reverie PinkΔE00 0.473 · #f4e5e1
- PotpourriΔE00 0.57 · #f5e7e2
- Mandarin SugarΔE00 0.629 · #f6e7e1
- Discreet RomanceΔE00 0.687 · #f5e5e1
- Impure WhiteΔE00 0.689 · #f5e7e3
- Rockabye BabyΔE00 0.704 · #f4e4e0
- ClerestoryΔE00 0.721 · #f4e6e0
- Spring PetalΔE00 0.737 · #f6e6e2
- Chantilly LaceΔE00 0.794 · #f1e2de
- Song Thrush EggΔE00 0.846 · #f2e5e0
- Faded LightΔE00 0.854 · #f5e4de
- Mussel WhiteΔE00 0.881 · #f0e2de
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.