HueComb

Icy Pink

#f5ced8

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

#f5ced8

RGB

245, 206, 216

OKLCh

88.7% 0.046 0.9°

CIELAB (D50)

86.4, 15.3, 0.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 20.6; on black, Lc -82.8. 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 14.7 and 16.5 and 42.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.43:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.70:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.70:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#906e77 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

#f5ced8

protanopia

#d3d3d8 · ΔE00 14.7

deuteranopia

#dadad7 · ΔE00 16.5

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 42.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLover’s Retreat at ΔE00 0.286: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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