Veiled Rose
#f7cdc8
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
#f7cdc8
RGB
247, 205, 200
OKLCh
88.3% 0.048 26.0°
CIELAB (D50)
86.0, 14.7, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 24 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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.3; on black, Lc -82.1. 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 17.8 and 20.1 and 36.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.45:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#936e6a 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
#f7cdc8
protanopia
#d2d2c8 · ΔE00 17.8
deuteranopia
#dadac7 · ΔE00 20.1
tritanopia
#e3e300 · ΔE00 36.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFirst Peach at ΔE00 0.791: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- First PeachΔE00 0.791 · #f4cac6
- Pink SaltΔE00 0.883 · #f6cdc6
- Fairy Tale DreamΔE00 1.012 · #facfcc
- Cake Pop PinkΔE00 1.11 · #f6cac3
- Flush PinkΔE00 1.123 · #f8cbc4
- Cloud Number NineΔE00 1.22 · #f9cec6
- Sidewalk Chalk PinkΔE00 1.221 · #f7ccc4
- Sonia RoseΔE00 1.224 · #f3c8c2
- Dash of PinkΔE00 1.395 · #fbd2cf
- Rose SorbetΔE00 1.451 · #fbd3cd
- OleanderΔE00 1.537 · #f2ccc5
- Pink BanglesΔE00 1.547 · #f9d1cf
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.