HueComb

Fairy Tale

#efb4ca

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

#efb4ca

RGB

239, 180, 202

OKLCh

83.0% 0.074 354.6°

CIELAB (D50)

79.3, 24.5, -2.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.6; on black, Lc -71.1. 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 18.7 and 19.7 and 49.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.74:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9d677c 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

#efb4ca

protanopia

#bcbcca · ΔE00 18.7

deuteranopia

#c8c8c9 · ΔE00 19.7

tritanopia

#d4d400 · ΔE00 49.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBunny Cake at ΔE00 0.454: 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.