Fresh Gum
#ffaadd
A magenta that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffaadd
RGB
255, 170, 221
OKLCh
83.5% 0.118 343.2°
CIELAB (D50)
79.3, 37.4, -12.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 31.6; on black, Lc -71.2. 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 20.8 and 20.7 and 60.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.74:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#ab5d8d 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
#ffaadd
protanopia
#b6b6dd · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#c8c8db · ΔE00 20.7
tritanopia
#d9d900 · ΔE00 60.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCorinthian Pink at ΔE00 1.015: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Corinthian PinkΔE00 1.015 · #ffa6d9
- Hot Aquarelle PinkΔE00 2.351 · #ffb3de
- Violet KissΔE00 3.056 · #f0a0d1
- Rose DaphneΔE00 3.173 · #ff9ede
- Hanami PinkΔE00 3.263 · #f2abe1
- Spaghetti Strap PinkΔE00 3.482 · #fbaed2
- Pretty Pink PiggyΔE00 3.522 · #eeaadd
- Lavender RoseΔE00 3.796 · #fba0e3
- Pink ApotheosisΔE00 4.112 · #ffb2f0
- Hermosa PinkΔE00 4.113 · #ffb3f0
- Pink WinkΔE00 4.139 · #ffaaee
- Pink ConditionΔE00 4.241 · #ff99dd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.