HueComb

Strawberry Buttercream

#f8b3ff

A magenta that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f8b3ff

RGB

248, 179, 255

OKLCh

85.5% 0.126 323.5°

CIELAB (D50)

81.4, 34.9, -27.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 28.0; on black, Lc -74.9. 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 16.9 and 15.8 and 65.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.63:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9f5fa6 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

#f8b3ff

protanopia

#bcbcff · ΔE00 16.9

deuteranopia

#cacafe · ΔE00 15.8

tritanopia

#d9d900 · ΔE00 65.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrilliant Lavender at ΔE00 2.347: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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