Hint of Red
#f6dfe0
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
#f6dfe0
RGB
246, 223, 224
OKLCh
92.3% 0.025 14.6°
CIELAB (D50)
90.7, 8.3, 2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 29 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 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 13.3; on black, Lc -90.5. 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 10.3 and 11.6 and 30.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.27:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867273 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
#f6dfe0
protanopia
#e2e2e0 · ΔE00 10.3
deuteranopia
#e6e6df · ΔE00 11.6
tritanopia
#ebeb79 · ΔE00 30.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLighthearted at ΔE00 0.219: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- LightheartedΔE00 0.219 · #f7e0e1
- Blowing KissesΔE00 0.587 · #f6dee0
- Heavenly PinkΔE00 0.641 · #f4dede
- Light NurseryΔE00 0.83 · #f4dcdc
- In Your DreamsΔE00 0.876 · #f6dddd
- Eased PinkΔE00 0.96 · #fae3e3
- Poetic PrincessΔE00 0.967 · #f8e1e4
- Lover’s KnotΔE00 0.995 · #f2dbdb
- Royal WeddingΔE00 1.047 · #fbe3e3
- Lovely HarmonyΔE00 1.058 · #f4dbdc
- Lily the PinkΔE00 1.284 · #f5dee2
- Pale PerfectionΔE00 1.322 · #f7e0de
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.