Fairy Floss
#ebc9c6
A red 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
#ebc9c6
RGB
235, 201, 198
OKLCh
86.4% 0.039 23.9°
CIELAB (D50)
83.9, 12.0, 6.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 uses 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 24.6; on black, Lc -78.5. 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 15.0 and 17.0 and 35.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.53:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.70:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.70:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e706d 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
#ebc9c6
protanopia
#cdcdc6 · ΔE00 15.0
deuteranopia
#d4d4c5 · ΔE00 17.0
tritanopia
#dbdb00 · ΔE00 35.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKashmir Pink at ΔE00 0.981: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Kashmir PinkΔE00 0.981 · #e9c8c3
- Kislev PinkΔE00 1.043 · #efcdcb
- FriendsΔE00 1.047 · #e8c5c1
- Empire RoseΔE00 1.061 · #e7c5c1
- Rose Coloured GlassesΔE00 1.38 · #e5c4c0
- Snow PinkΔE00 1.579 · #ebc6c0
- Crystal PinkΔE00 1.621 · #e8c3bf
- Pink CardoonΔE00 1.685 · #ecc9ca
- Petite PinkΔE00 1.746 · #eacacb
- CongoΔE00 1.762 · #e8c3be
- Pelican FeatherΔE00 1.779 · #e8c3c2
- Rose HazeΔE00 1.782 · #ecc5c0
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.