Millennial Pink
#f6c8c1
A red 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
#f6c8c1
RGB
246, 200, 193
OKLCh
87.1% 0.053 28.3°
CIELAB (D50)
84.6, 16.1, 10.0
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 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.6; on black, Lc -79.6. 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 19.3 and 21.5 and 36.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.51:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.95:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.95:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#966d67 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
#f6c8c1
protanopia
#cecec1 · ΔE00 19.3
deuteranopia
#d7d7c0 · ΔE00 21.5
tritanopia
#e0e000 · ΔE00 36.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSeashell Pink at ΔE00 0.494: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Seashell PinkΔE00 0.494 · #f7c8c2
- Cake Pop PinkΔE00 0.64 · #f6cac3
- Flush PinkΔE00 0.7 · #f8cbc4
- Sonia RoseΔE00 0.857 · #f3c8c2
- Rose QuartzΔE00 0.947 · #f7cac1
- Sidewalk Chalk PinkΔE00 1.206 · #f7ccc4
- Dress UpΔE00 1.265 · #fac7bf
- Gossamer PinkΔE00 1.337 · #fac8c3
- Peach RedΔE00 1.442 · #f9cdc4
- Cloud Number NineΔE00 1.541 · #f9cec6
- First PeachΔE00 1.553 · #f4cac6
- Veiled RoseΔE00 1.606 · #f7cdc8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.