Strawberry Ripple

#f7cdce

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

#f7cdce

RGB

247, 205, 206

OKLCh

88.5% 0.048 16.5°

CIELAB (D50)

86.1, 15.4, 5.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 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 21.0; on black, Lc -82.3. 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 16.7 and 19.5 and 39.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.58:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.58:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#936d6f 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

#f7cdce

protanopia

#d2d2ce · ΔE00 16.7

deuteranopia

#dadacd · ΔE00 19.5

tritanopia

#e3e300 · ΔE00 39.2

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 0.324: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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