HueComb

Sugarwinkle

#fdc5e3

A magenta 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

#fdc5e3

RGB

253, 197, 227

OKLCh

88.2% 0.074 345.3°

CIELAB (D50)

85.3, 24.0, -6.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 94% 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 22.3; on black, Lc -81.0. 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 18.2 and 52.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.47:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.27:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.27:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9a6883 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

#fdc5e3

protanopia

#cccce3 · ΔE00 17.4

deuteranopia

#d7d7e2 · ΔE00 18.2

tritanopia

#e3e300 · ΔE00 52.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoulmate Pink at ΔE00 1.204: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • Soulmate PinkΔE00 1.204 · #ffc8e9
  • Sweet RomanceΔE00 1.874 · #ffc4dd
  • Flamingo FeatherΔE00 2.037 · #f8bdd9
  • Miami PinkΔE00 2.165 · #f7c3da
  • Pretty in PinkΔE00 2.193 · #fabfe4
  • Classic RoseΔE00 2.261 · #fbcce7
  • Rosy Maple MothΔE00 2.277 · #fec9ed
  • Rosy NectarΔE00 2.299 · #f2c2e1
  • Cotton Candy AestheticΔE00 2.304 · #f5bcde
  • Puff of PinkΔE00 2.347 · #ffcbee
  • Infra-WhiteΔE00 2.373 · #ffccee
  • Pink HeathΔE00 2.563 · #f2bddf

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