HueComb

Pretty in Pink

#fabfe4

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

Hex

#fabfe4

RGB

250, 191, 228

OKLCh

86.9% 0.082 340.9°

CIELAB (D50)

83.6, 26.0, -9.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 88% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.9; on black, Lc -78.3. 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 17.4 and 18.1 and 55.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9b6688 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

#fabfe4

protanopia

#c7c7e4 · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#d3d3e3 · ΔE00 18.1

tritanopia

#dfdf00 · ΔE00 55.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCotton Candy Aesthetic at ΔE00 1.18: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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