HueComb

Love Affair

#ffbec8

A pink 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

#ffbec8

RGB

255, 190, 200

OKLCh

86.3% 0.076 8.5°

CIELAB (D50)

83.3, 25.1, 4.6

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 25.6; on black, Lc -77.4. 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 25.2 and 46.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a16771 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

#ffbec8

protanopia

#c7c7c8 · ΔE00 20.2

deuteranopia

#d4d4c6 · ΔE00 25.2

tritanopia

#e1e100 · ΔE00 46.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isA Lot of Love at ΔE00 0.708: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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