HueComb

It’s a Girl!

#ffdae2

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

#ffdae2

RGB

255, 218, 226

OKLCh

92.2% 0.042 3.3°

CIELAB (D50)

90.4, 14.2, 1.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 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 14.0; on black, Lc -89.9. 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 14.1 and 16.1 and 41.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.28:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.38:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.38:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8f6e76 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

#ffdae2

protanopia

#dfdfe2 · ΔE00 14.1

deuteranopia

#e6e6e1 · ΔE00 16.1

tritanopia

#eded00 · ΔE00 41.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Perfume at ΔE00 0.836: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Pink PerfumeΔE00 0.836 · #ffdbe5
  • Wishful ThinkingΔE00 1.392 · #fcdadf
  • No Need to BlushΔE00 1.404 · #ffd6dd
  • Barely PinkΔE00 1.606 · #f8d7dd
  • Mexican MudkipΔE00 1.607 · #fcd8dc
  • Fresh PigletΔE00 1.622 · #fddde6
  • Satin RibbonΔE00 1.686 · #ffd8dc
  • Pixie DustΔE00 1.78 · #f6d5dc
  • Pink SupremecyΔE00 1.782 · #ffd9e6
  • Baby GirlΔE00 1.79 · #ffdfe8
  • Pink PleasureΔE00 1.823 · #ffdfe5
  • Pink FluoriteΔE00 1.86 · #fbd3d9

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