Cloud Number Nine
#f9cec6
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
#f9cec6
RGB
249, 206, 198
OKLCh
88.6% 0.050 30.4°
CIELAB (D50)
86.4, 14.7, 10.0
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 83% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.7; on black, Lc -82.7. 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 18.4 and 20.5 and 35.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.43:1 — fails AA
Black text
14.67:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at14.67:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#946e67 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
#f9cec6
protanopia
#d3d3c6 · ΔE00 18.4
deuteranopia
#dcdcc5 · ΔE00 20.5
tritanopia
#e5e500 · ΔE00 35.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSidewalk Chalk Pink at ΔE00 0.462: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sidewalk Chalk PinkΔE00 0.462 · #f7ccc4
- Peach RedΔE00 0.487 · #f9cdc4
- Snow PaΔE00 0.663 · #fcd0c7
- Pink SaltΔE00 0.705 · #f6cdc6
- Flush PinkΔE00 0.912 · #f8cbc4
- Cake Pop PinkΔE00 1.001 · #f6cac3
- Full BloomΔE00 1.038 · #fbcdc3
- Rose QuartzΔE00 1.045 · #f7cac1
- Veiled RoseΔE00 1.22 · #f7cdc8
- Rose SorbetΔE00 1.485 · #fbd3cd
- Millennial PinkΔE00 1.541 · #f6c8c1
- Pearl BlushΔE00 1.552 · #f4cec5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.