HueComb

Pleasing Pink

#f5cdd2

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

#f5cdd2

RGB

245, 205, 210

OKLCh

88.4% 0.045 9.6°

CIELAB (D50)

86.0, 15.1, 3.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 22 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.2; on black, Lc -82.2. 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 15.1 and 18.1 and 40.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.55:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.55:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#916e72 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

#f5cdd2

protanopia

#d2d2d2 · ΔE00 15.1

deuteranopia

#dadad1 · ΔE00 18.1

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 40.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFeather Boa at ΔE00 1.02: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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