Lucky You
#fad9da
A pink 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
#fad9da
RGB
250, 217, 218
OKLCh
91.3% 0.037 15.8°
CIELAB (D50)
89.5, 11.9, 4.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 26 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.4; on black, Lc -88.3. 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 13.8 and 15.9 and 37.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.31:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.00:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.00:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8d7071 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
#fad9da
protanopia
#ddddda · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#e3e3d9 · ΔE00 15.9
tritanopia
#eaea00 · ΔE00 37.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLovelight at ΔE00 0.77: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- LovelightΔE00 0.77 · #f7d6d8
- Sun Bleached PinkΔE00 0.88 · #fadadd
- Aquarelle RedΔE00 0.957 · #fedddd
- Rose TonicΔE00 1.038 · #ffdddd
- RedneckΔE00 1.048 · #f5d6d8
- Bunny’s NoseΔE00 1.194 · #fad9dd
- BalletΔE00 1.225 · #f7d5d4
- Light RoseΔE00 1.259 · #f4d4d6
- Wide-EyedΔE00 1.285 · #f9d9d7
- Strawberry BlondeΔE00 1.319 · #ffdadc
- Frosted TulipΔE00 1.331 · #f6d8d7
- Coy PinkΔE00 1.412 · #f9dad8
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.