HueComb

Channel

#f1c3c2

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

#f1c3c2

RGB

241, 195, 194

OKLCh

85.7% 0.053 19.7°

CIELAB (D50)

82.9, 16.8, 7.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 12 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 26.2; on black, Lc -76.8. 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 18.4 and 21.3 and 38.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.58:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#966c6c 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

#f1c3c2

protanopia

#c9c9c2 · ΔE00 18.4

deuteranopia

#d2d2c1 · ΔE00 21.3

tritanopia

#dbdb00 · ΔE00 38.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMy Fair Lady at ΔE00 0.539: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • My Fair LadyΔE00 0.539 · #f3c4c2
  • Silver StrawberryΔE00 0.819 · #f2c1c0
  • English RoseΔE00 1.034 · #f4c6c3
  • Cor-de-PeleΔE00 1.059 · #f4c2c2
  • Cafe PinkΔE00 1.27 · #ecc1c2
  • Princess BrideΔE00 1.299 · #f4c1c1
  • Berry GoodΔE00 1.595 · #edc3c5
  • Icing on the CakeΔE00 1.736 · #f8c4c5
  • Delicate Pink RoseΔE00 1.848 · #eec6c3
  • Arizona SunriseΔE00 1.874 · #ebbcb9
  • Sugarcane DahliaΔE00 1.883 · #f7c2bf
  • Happy PigletsΔE00 1.906 · #f6cbca

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