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#fedfdc

A red 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

#fedfdc

RGB

254, 223, 220

OKLCh

92.8% 0.035 24.4°

CIELAB (D50)

91.4, 10.7, 5.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 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 12.4; on black, Lc -91.6. 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 13.7 and 15.5 and 35.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.25:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c706e 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

#fedfdc

protanopia

#e3e3dc · ΔE00 13.7

deuteranopia

#e9e9db · ΔE00 15.5

tritanopia

#efef00 · ΔE00 35.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Remains at ΔE00 0.477: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Red RemainsΔE00 0.477 · #ffe0de
  • Peachy KeenΔE00 0.725 · #ffdeda
  • Peachy EtherealΔE00 0.821 · #fde0dc
  • TartletΔE00 0.844 · #fddcd9
  • Pink GlitterΔE00 0.946 · #fddfda
  • Pink LotusΔE00 0.984 · #fadbd7
  • Coy PinkΔE00 1.162 · #f9dad8
  • Red ShimmerΔE00 1.361 · #fee0da
  • Wide-EyedΔE00 1.375 · #f9d9d7
  • Powdered BlushΔE00 1.439 · #f8dcdb
  • Aquarelle RedΔE00 1.459 · #fedddd
  • Lady AnneΔE00 1.499 · #fde2de

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