Rosewater

#f6dbd8

A red 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

#f6dbd8

RGB

246, 219, 216

OKLCh

91.3% 0.030 25.3°

CIELAB (D50)

89.6, 9.3, 5.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

32 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 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
As text on white it measures APCA Lc 15.3; on black, Lc -88.5. 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 12.3 and 13.8 and 33.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#89716f 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

#f6dbd8

protanopia

#deded8 · ΔE00 12.3

deuteranopia

#e3e3d7 · ΔE00 13.8

tritanopia

#e9e93c · ΔE00 33.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScented Valentine at ΔE00 0.596: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

Scented ValentineΔE00 0.596 · #f3d9d6
Southern BeautyΔE00 0.662 · #f7dddb
FrescoΔE00 0.769 · #f4dbd9
Powdered BlushΔE00 0.993 · #f8dcdb
Pale ShrimpΔE00 1.015 · #f8dbd6
Hawaiian ShellΔE00 1.078 · #f3dbd9
Global WarmingΔE00 1.12 · #f1d7d3
Light ApricotΔE00 1.237 · #f2dad6
Pink LotusΔE00 1.334 · #fadbd7
Peachy EtherealΔE00 1.384 · #fde0dc
Coy PinkΔE00 1.415 · #f9dad8
Light Marshmallow MagicΔE00 1.431 · #f4dddb

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