Strawberry Dreams
#ff88aa
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff88aa
RGB
255, 136, 170
OKLCh
76.6% 0.148 3.0°
CIELAB (D50)
71.1, 48.7, 3.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.9; on black, Lc -58.3. 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 25.5 and 31.2 and 58.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.25:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c15074 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
#ff88aa
protanopia
#9c9cab · ΔE00 25.5
deuteranopia
#b6b6a7 · ΔE00 31.2
tritanopia
#cece00 · ΔE00 58.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRock’n’Rose at ΔE00 0.635: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rock’n’RoseΔE00 0.635 · #fc8aaa
- Tickle Me PinkΔE00 0.84 · #fc89ac
- PinkyΔE00 0.873 · #fc86aa
- Informative PinkΔE00 1.048 · #fe85ab
- RosaΔE00 1.349 · #fe86a4
- Pink MakeupΔE00 1.741 · #fc80a5
- Schauss PinkΔE00 1.888 · #ff91af
- Bunny FluffΔE00 2.084 · #fb8da6
- Baker-Miller PinkΔE00 2.176 · #ff92ae
- Pink SherbetΔE00 2.244 · #f780a1
- Unripe StrawberryΔE00 2.463 · #f78fa7
- Brown KnapweedΔE00 2.787 · #f485ac
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.