Strawberry Bonbon
#ffebfa
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#ffebfa
RGB
255, 235, 250
OKLCh
96.0% 0.029 334.4°
CIELAB (D50)
95.0, 8.9, -4.7
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 0.0; on black, Lc -98.4. 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 8.6 and 8.9 and 31.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.13:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.52:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.52:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#83727f is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ffebfa
protanopia
#ededfa · ΔE00 8.6
deuteranopia
#f1f1fa · ΔE00 8.9
tritanopia
#f5f5b2 · ΔE00 31.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlacebo Pink at ΔE00 1.095: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Placebo PinkΔE00 1.095 · #fcebfa
- Dolomite CrystalΔE00 1.202 · #fee8f5
- Cherry PearlΔE00 1.37 · #f9e7f4
- Lovely Euphoric DelightΔE00 1.457 · #ffeeff
- Partial PinkΔE00 1.658 · #ffedf8
- Fairy DustΔE00 1.676 · #ffe8f4
- Soft LavenderΔE00 1.943 · #f6e5f6
- Petal PoiseΔE00 2.304 · #f8e3ee
- Placebo MagentaΔE00 2.496 · #fcebf4
- Pale Orchid PetalΔE00 2.721 · #f6e2ec
- Spun SugarΔE00 2.763 · #fae2ed
- Placebo FuchsiaΔE00 2.79 · #f8ebfc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.