HueComb

Blush Rush

#f0bcbe

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

#f0bcbe

RGB

240, 188, 190

OKLCh

84.2% 0.060 15.8°

CIELAB (D50)

81.0, 19.5, 6.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 20 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 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.1; on black, Lc -73.8. 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 19.4 and 23.0 and 41.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.66:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#996b6d 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

#f0bcbe

protanopia

#c3c3be · ΔE00 19.4

deuteranopia

#cdcdbd · ΔE00 23.0

tritanopia

#d8d800 · ΔE00 41.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMarzipan Pink at ΔE00 0.493: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Marzipan PinkΔE00 0.493 · #eebabc
  • Angry GhostΔE00 0.842 · #eebbbb
  • Seashell FrothΔE00 1.024 · #edb9bd
  • Plaza PinkΔE00 1.057 · #f4c0c3
  • Star of the MorningΔE00 1.169 · #ebbbbe
  • Purple ThornΔE00 1.331 · #f0b9be
  • Petals UnfoldingΔE00 1.343 · #f3bbc0
  • Princess BrideΔE00 1.362 · #f4c1c1
  • Candy CaneΔE00 1.363 · #f7bfc2
  • Cor-de-PeleΔE00 1.568 · #f4c2c2
  • Silver StrawberryΔE00 1.644 · #f2c1c0
  • Cat NoseΔE00 1.696 · #ecbac0

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