HueComb

Strawberry Milk

#ffd9e7

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

#ffd9e7

RGB

255, 217, 231

OKLCh

92.1% 0.046 353.9°

CIELAB (D50)

90.2, 15.3, -1.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 14.2; on black, Lc -89.7. 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 14.2 and 14.9 and 44.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8f6e7a 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

#ffd9e7

protanopia

#dedee7 · ΔE00 14.2

deuteranopia

#e5e5e6 · ΔE00 14.9

tritanopia

#eded00 · ΔE00 44.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCreamy Axolotl at ΔE00 0.332: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.