HueComb

Salmon Flush

#f1c9cc

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

#f1c9cc

RGB

241, 201, 204

OKLCh

87.1% 0.045 13.0°

CIELAB (D50)

84.5, 14.9, 4.1

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 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 23.5; on black, Lc -79.7. 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 15.6 and 18.5 and 39.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.97:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.97:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#916e71 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

#f1c9cc

protanopia

#cececc · ΔE00 15.6

deuteranopia

#d6d6cb · ΔE00 18.5

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 39.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFeather Boa at ΔE00 0.383: 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.