First Crush
#f6e2ea
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
#f6e2ea
RGB
246, 226, 234
OKLCh
93.1% 0.024 351.3°
CIELAB (D50)
91.7, 8.1, -1.3
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 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.7; on black, Lc -92.3. 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 8.8 and 9.3 and 29.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.99:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.99:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#847279 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
#f6e2ea
protanopia
#e4e4ea · ΔE00 8.8
deuteranopia
#e8e8ea · ΔE00 9.3
tritanopia
#ecec9d · ΔE00 29.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPale Orchid Petal at ΔE00 0.795: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pale Orchid PetalΔE00 0.795 · #f6e2ec
- Pink AmourΔE00 0.841 · #f4e2e9
- NinaΔE00 0.845 · #f5e3ea
- Wishy-Washy LiliesΔE00 0.915 · #f5dfe7
- Petal PoiseΔE00 1.25 · #f8e3ee
- Pink ProposalΔE00 1.251 · #f1e0e8
- Wishy-Washy PinkΔE00 1.278 · #f0dee7
- Mellow FlowerΔE00 1.323 · #f1dfe9
- Taffeta TintΔE00 1.337 · #f3e0eb
- Pink TutuΔE00 1.359 · #f9e4e9
- PiggybackΔE00 1.386 · #f0dce3
- Lavender MoonΔE00 1.398 · #f2dde3
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.