HueComb

Kendall Rose

#f7cccd

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

#f7cccd

RGB

247, 204, 205

OKLCh

88.3% 0.049 16.5°

CIELAB (D50)

85.8, 15.8, 5.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 21.5; on black, Lc -81.9. 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 17.0 and 19.9 and 39.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.45:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.47:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.47:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#936d6e 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

#f7cccd

protanopia

#d1d1cd · ΔE00 17.0

deuteranopia

#dadacc · ΔE00 19.9

tritanopia

#e3e300 · ΔE00 39.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Ripple at ΔE00 0.324: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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