Pink Blush
#f4acb6
A pink that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f4acb6
RGB
244, 172, 182
OKLCh
81.5% 0.085 10.0°
CIELAB (D50)
77.6, 28.2, 6.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 34.4; on black, Lc -68.2. 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 21.4 and 27.1 and 46.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.84:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a6646e 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
#f4acb6
protanopia
#b6b6b6 · ΔE00 21.4
deuteranopia
#c5c5b4 · ΔE00 27.1
tritanopia
#d4d400 · ΔE00 46.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isExclusively Yours at ΔE00 0.823: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Exclusively YoursΔE00 0.823 · #f2aeb8
- Almond BlossomΔE00 0.9 · #f2acb8
- Bubblegum PinkΔE00 0.961 · #f6b0ba
- Sweet CarolineΔE00 1.066 · #f6afbb
- Baby Fish MouthΔE00 1.107 · #f3acb9
- Pink FitΔE00 1.164 · #f5a8b2
- Silly PuddyΔE00 1.225 · #f4b0bb
- PrincessΔE00 1.408 · #f0a8b5
- Strawberry CreamΔE00 1.474 · #f0adb3
- Powder RoseΔE00 1.762 · #f5b3bc
- Poodle SkirtΔE00 2.013 · #ffaebb
- Squid PinkΔE00 2.031 · #f5b4bd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.