Pinky
#fc86aa
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#fc86aa
RGB
252, 134, 170
OKLCh
76.0% 0.147 1.8°
CIELAB (D50)
70.3, 48.5, 2.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% 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 45.0; on black, Lc -57.1. 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 25.5 and 30.5 and 58.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.30:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.13:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.13:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c05076 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
#fc86aa
protanopia
#9a9aab · ΔE00 25.5
deuteranopia
#b3b3a7 · ΔE00 30.5
tritanopia
#cccc00 · ΔE00 58.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInformative Pink at ΔE00 0.447: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Informative PinkΔE00 0.447 · #fe85ab
- Tickle Me PinkΔE00 0.63 · #fc89ac
- Strawberry DreamsΔE00 0.873 · #ff88aa
- Rock’n’RoseΔE00 1.055 · #fc8aaa
- Pink MakeupΔE00 1.306 · #fc80a5
- RosaΔE00 1.879 · #fe86a4
- Pink SherbetΔE00 1.905 · #f780a1
- Brown KnapweedΔE00 1.962 · #f485ac
- Schauss PinkΔE00 2.46 · #ff91af
- Bunny FluffΔE00 2.7 · #fb8da6
- Baker-Miller PinkΔE00 2.818 · #ff92ae
- Unripe StrawberryΔE00 2.907 · #f78fa7
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.