HueComb

Piglet

#ffc0c6

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

#ffc0c6

RGB

255, 192, 198

OKLCh

86.6% 0.073 12.3°

CIELAB (D50)

83.7, 23.9, 6.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • 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 25.0; on black, Lc -78.1. 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 20.6 and 25.4 and 44.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a0676e 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

#ffc0c6

protanopia

#c8c8c6 · ΔE00 20.6

deuteranopia

#d5d5c4 · ΔE00 25.4

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 44.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDelhi Dance Pink at ΔE00 0.858: 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.