Ballet
#f7d5d4
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
#f7d5d4
RGB
247, 213, 212
OKLCh
90.1% 0.038 19.9°
CIELAB (D50)
88.2, 12.1, 5.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 27 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 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 17.7; on black, Lc -85.9. 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 14.5 and 16.6 and 36.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8e706f 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
#f7d5d4
protanopia
#d9d9d4 · ΔE00 14.5
deuteranopia
#e0e0d3 · ΔE00 16.6
tritanopia
#e7e700 · ΔE00 36.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPinky Promise at ΔE00 1.089: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pinky PromiseΔE00 1.089 · #f5d1cf
- Wide-EyedΔE00 1.1 · #f9d9d7
- Lucky YouΔE00 1.225 · #fad9da
- LovelightΔE00 1.262 · #f7d6d8
- Frosted TulipΔE00 1.34 · #f6d8d7
- Light RoseΔE00 1.375 · #f4d4d6
- Coy PinkΔE00 1.424 · #f9dad8
- Pink DogwoodΔE00 1.443 · #f7d1d1
- Rose MilkΔE00 1.461 · #f6d2d4
- Just a TeaseΔE00 1.491 · #fbd6d2
- RedneckΔE00 1.514 · #f5d6d8
- Cottagecore SunsetΔE00 1.532 · #ffdad9
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.