HueComb

Manga Pink

#f5b9d8

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

#f5b9d8

RGB

245, 185, 216

OKLCh

84.9% 0.080 346.5°

CIELAB (D50)

81.4, 25.8, -6.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 28.3; on black, Lc -74.6. 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 18.2 and 19.0 and 53.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.64:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9c6683 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

#f5b9d8

protanopia

#c1c1d8 · ΔE00 18.2

deuteranopia

#cdcdd7 · ΔE00 19.0

tritanopia

#d9d900 · ΔE00 53.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlamingo Feather at ΔE00 1.202: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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