HueComb

Candy Cane

#f7bfc2

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

#f7bfc2

RGB

247, 191, 194

OKLCh

85.6% 0.065 14.9°

CIELAB (D50)

82.5, 21.0, 6.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 20.0 and 23.9 and 42.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.59:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.19:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.19:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9c696d 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

#f7bfc2

protanopia

#c6c6c2 · ΔE00 20.0

deuteranopia

#d1d1c1 · ΔE00 23.9

tritanopia

#dddd00 · ΔE00 42.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAzalea Pink at ΔE00 0.508: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Azalea PinkΔE00 0.508 · #f9c0c4
  • Plaza PinkΔE00 0.922 · #f4c0c3
  • Delhi Dance PinkΔE00 1.152 · #fdc1c5
  • Crystal RoseΔE00 1.153 · #fdc3c6
  • Petals UnfoldingΔE00 1.185 · #f3bbc0
  • Blush RushΔE00 1.363 · #f0bcbe
  • Icing on the CakeΔE00 1.459 · #f8c4c5
  • Pink and SleekΔE00 1.467 · #ffc3c6
  • Pale PetuniaΔE00 1.477 · #f8c0c7
  • Spanish PinkΔE00 1.483 · #f7bfbe
  • Rose ReminderΔE00 1.529 · #f4c0c6
  • Princess BrideΔE00 1.538 · #f4c1c1

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