Hard Candy
#ffbbbb
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
#ffbbbb
RGB
255, 187, 187
OKLCh
85.5% 0.079 18.8°
CIELAB (D50)
82.3, 25.3, 10.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 27.2; on black, Lc -75.8. 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 23.4 and 26.8 and 43.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.61:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.08:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.08:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a36667 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
#ffbbbb
protanopia
#c4c4bb · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#d2d2b9 · ΔE00 26.8
tritanopia
#e0e000 · ΔE00 43.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeach Scone at ΔE00 0.265: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Peach SconeΔE00 0.265 · #ffbcbc
- Young SalmonΔE00 1.58 · #ffb6b4
- Precious PinkΔE00 1.791 · #f6b5b6
- Peach WhisperΔE00 2.103 · #f9bab5
- Ballerina PinkΔE00 2.117 · #f7b6ba
- Wildflower BouquetΔE00 2.294 · #ffb3b1
- Carnation BloomΔE00 2.363 · #f9c0be
- Old FlameΔE00 2.461 · #f2b7b5
- LadylikeΔE00 2.481 · #ffc3bf
- Spanish PinkΔE00 2.485 · #f7bfbe
- Cherry ChipΔE00 2.553 · #ffbbb4
- Delhi Dance PinkΔE00 2.563 · #fdc1c5
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.