HueComb

Lavender Candy

#fcb4d5

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

Hex

#fcb4d5

RGB

252, 180, 213

OKLCh

84.7% 0.093 350.2°

CIELAB (D50)

81.0, 30.4, -5.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 93% 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 29.1; on black, Lc -73.8. 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 20.0 and 21.0 and 54.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a46382 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

#fcb4d5

protanopia

#bebed5 · ΔE00 20.0

deuteranopia

#cdcdd3 · ΔE00 21.0

tritanopia

#dbdb00 · ΔE00 54.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Bar at ΔE00 1.111: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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