HueComb

Pink Fit

#f5a8b2

A pink that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f5a8b2

RGB

245, 168, 178

OKLCh

80.8% 0.092 10.8°

CIELAB (D50)

76.7, 30.1, 7.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 35.7; on black, Lc -66.8. 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 22.3 and 28.1 and 47.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.89:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a9626d 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

#f5a8b2

protanopia

#b3b3b2 · ΔE00 22.3

deuteranopia

#c3c3b0 · ΔE00 28.1

tritanopia

#d3d300 · ΔE00 47.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Blush at ΔE00 1.164: 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.