HueComb

Poodle Skirt

#ffaebb

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

Hex

#ffaebb

RGB

255, 174, 187

OKLCh

83.2% 0.096 8.8°

CIELAB (D50)

79.4, 31.7, 6.1

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 31.7; on black, Lc -71.0. 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 22.4 and 28.3 and 49.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.75:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.02:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.02:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ab616f 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

#ffaebb

protanopia

#b9babb · ΔE00 22.4

deuteranopia

#cacab9 · ΔE00 28.3

tritanopia

#dbdb00 · ΔE00 49.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isA Brand New Day at ΔE00 1.362: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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