HueComb

Berries N’ Cream

#f2b8ca

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

#f2b8ca

RGB

242, 184, 202

OKLCh

84.0% 0.071 358.3°

CIELAB (D50)

80.6, 23.6, -0.5

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 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 29.7; on black, Lc -73.1. 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 20.8 and 48.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.68:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.48:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.48:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9c6879 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

#f2b8ca

protanopia

#c0c0ca · ΔE00 18.7

deuteranopia

#cbcbc9 · ΔE00 20.8

tritanopia

#d7d700 · ΔE00 48.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Grapefruit at ΔE00 1.025: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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