Love Spell

#f8b4c4

A pink that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#f8b4c4

RGB

248, 180, 196

OKLCh

83.8% 0.081 3.5°

CIELAB (D50)

80.2, 27.1, 2.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 86% 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 30.4; on black, Lc -72.3. 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 20.5 and 24.7 and 48.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.70:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a26575 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

#f8b4c4

protanopia

#bdbdc4 · ΔE00 20.5

deuteranopia

#cbcbc2 · ΔE00 24.7

tritanopia

#d9d900 · ΔE00 48.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIbis at ΔE00 0.747: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • IbisΔE00 0.747 · #f4b3c2
  • CupidΔE00 1.188 · #f5b2c5
  • RhodoniteΔE00 1.312 · #f3b3c5
  • Cherry Blossom PinkΔE00 1.53 · #ffb7c5
  • RosieΔE00 1.751 · #ffbbcc
  • Soft PinkΔE00 1.798 · #fdb0c0
  • Tentacle PinkΔE00 1.83 · #ffbacd
  • Sweet CarolineΔE00 2 · #f6afbb
  • Silly PuddyΔE00 2.014 · #f4b0bb
  • Christy’s SmileΔE00 2.144 · #f6bbca
  • Squid PinkΔE00 2.288 · #f5b4bd
  • Baby Fish MouthΔE00 2.301 · #f3acb9

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