HueComb

Cupid

#f5b2c5

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

Hex

#f5b2c5

RGB

245, 178, 197

OKLCh

83.1% 0.081 0.4°

CIELAB (D50)

79.4, 27.1, 0.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 31.6; on black, Lc -71.1. 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 20.3 and 23.4 and 49.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.74:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.06:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.06:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a26577 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

#f5b2c5

protanopia

#bbbbc5 · ΔE00 20.3

deuteranopia

#c9c9c3 · ΔE00 23.4

tritanopia

#d7d700 · ΔE00 49.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRhodonite at ΔE00 0.59: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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