Dolce Pink
#f0d9e0
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
#f0d9e0
RGB
240, 217, 224
OKLCh
90.6% 0.027 357.2°
CIELAB (D50)
88.8, 9.1, -0.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 18 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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 16.6; on black, Lc -87.1. 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 9.9 and 10.6 and 32.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.34:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.71:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.71:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#867278 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
#f0d9e0
protanopia
#dcdce0 · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#e0e0df · ΔE00 10.6
tritanopia
#e5e57f · ΔE00 32.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRosa Bonito at ΔE00 0.545: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rosa BonitoΔE00 0.545 · #efd9e1
- Fancy PantsΔE00 0.757 · #f3dae1
- Lighthearted PinkΔE00 0.994 · #edd5dd
- Pink PosiesΔE00 1.12 · #efdbe2
- Lavender MoonΔE00 1.134 · #f2dde3
- PiggybackΔE00 1.202 · #f0dce3
- Ranunculus WhiteΔE00 1.276 · #f5dde6
- Wishy-Washy LiliesΔE00 1.405 · #f5dfe7
- Berry TaffyΔE00 1.548 · #ecd5d9
- Pale RoseΔE00 1.548 · #efd6da
- Minified BlushΔE00 1.615 · #f2dde1
- Pork BellyΔE00 1.626 · #f8e0e7
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.