Cherry Blossom
#f5c1d5
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
#f5c1d5
RGB
245, 193, 213
OKLCh
86.3% 0.065 353.6°
CIELAB (D50)
83.2, 21.4, -2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 25.6; on black, Lc -77.5. 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 17.4 and 18.2 and 48.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.56:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.47:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.47:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#98697c 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
#f5c1d5
protanopia
#c8c8d5 · ΔE00 17.4
deuteranopia
#d2d2d4 · ΔE00 18.2
tritanopia
#dddd00 · ΔE00 48.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Destiny at ΔE00 0.988: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink DestinyΔE00 0.988 · #f5bfd1
- Miami PinkΔE00 1.086 · #f7c3da
- SweetheartΔE00 1.137 · #f3c3d8
- Pink ChintzΔE00 1.405 · #efbecf
- Carnation BouquetΔE00 1.415 · #f5c0d0
- Guava GlowΔE00 1.566 · #eec0d2
- Parrot TulipΔE00 1.7 · #eebfd5
- Dainty PinkΔE00 1.782 · #ecbcce
- Cameo PinkΔE00 1.789 · #efbbcc
- Madder RoseΔE00 2.018 · #eebbcb
- Cherry BlushΔE00 2.039 · #ffc9dd
- Cherry CordialΔE00 2.151 · #ebbed3
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.