HueComb

Happy Piglets

#f6cbca

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

#f6cbca

RGB

246, 203, 202

OKLCh

87.9% 0.049 19.7°

CIELAB (D50)

85.5, 15.6, 6.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 22.1; on black, Lc -81.2. 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 17.4 and 20.1 and 38.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.31:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.31:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#936d6d 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

#f6cbca

protanopia

#d0d0ca · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#d9d9c9 · ΔE00 20.1

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 38.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKendall Rose at ΔE00 0.818: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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