HueComb

Lovely Breeze

#f9d8e4

A pink 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

#f9d8e4

RGB

249, 216, 228

OKLCh

91.3% 0.040 354.0°

CIELAB (D50)

89.4, 13.3, -1.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 15.6; on black, Lc -88.2. 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 12.9 and 13.6 and 42.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.31:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.97:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.97:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c6f7a 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

#f9d8e4

protanopia

#dcdce4 · ΔE00 12.9

deuteranopia

#e2e2e3 · ΔE00 13.6

tritanopia

#e9e900 · ΔE00 42.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Frosting at ΔE00 0.526: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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