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#ffb7d5

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

Hex

#ffb7d5

RGB

255, 183, 213

OKLCh

85.5% 0.091 352.5°

CIELAB (D50)

82.0, 30.0, -4.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 27.6; on black, Lc -75.4. 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 20.2 and 21.3 and 54.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.62:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a4637f 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

#ffb7d5

protanopia

#c1c1d5 · ΔE00 20.2

deuteranopia

#d0d0d3 · ΔE00 21.3

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 54.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Candy at ΔE00 1.111: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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