HueComb

Cotton Candy Comet

#ffc3cb

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

#ffc3cb

RGB

255, 195, 203

OKLCh

87.3% 0.069 9.7°

CIELAB (D50)

84.5, 22.9, 4.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 13 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 23.7; on black, Lc -79.5. 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 19.3 and 24.2 and 45.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.51:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.92:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.92:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9e6870 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

#ffc3cb

protanopia

#cbcbcb · ΔE00 19.3

deuteranopia

#d7d7c9 · ΔE00 24.2

tritanopia

#e3e300 · ΔE00 45.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRubber Rose at ΔE00 0.817: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.