Bubblegum Beam
#f887c7
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#f887c7
RGB
248, 135, 199
OKLCh
76.5% 0.155 346.3°
CIELAB (D50)
70.7, 49.5, -13.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 44.2; on black, Lc -57.9. 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 24.8 and 23.4 and 64.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.26:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.28:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.28:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bb5090 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
#f887c7
protanopia
#9999c7 · ΔE00 24.8
deuteranopia
#b2b2c5 · ΔE00 23.4
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 64.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTea Rose at ΔE00 1.109: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Tea RoseΔE00 1.109 · #f883c2
- Shimmering LoveΔE00 1.214 · #ff88cc
- Pink Orchid MantisΔE00 1.519 · #fd82c3
- Pink Plastic FantasticΔE00 1.598 · #fc80c3
- Princess PerfumeΔE00 1.76 · #ff85cf
- Pout PinkΔE00 1.974 · #ff82ce
- Persian PinkΔE00 2.023 · #f77fbe
- Pink TeaseΔE00 2.292 · #ff81c0
- Blushed BombshellΔE00 2.645 · #ee88cc
- Pink DelightΔE00 3.129 · #ff8ad8
- Dream SettingΔE00 3.649 · #ff77bb
- CochonnetΔE00 3.865 · #ff88bb
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.