Pink Parfait
#faddd5
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
#faddd5
RGB
250, 221, 213
OKLCh
91.9% 0.034 35.9°
CIELAB (D50)
90.4, 9.4, 7.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 23 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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 14.0; on black, Lc -89.8. 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 13.6 and 14.9 and 32.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.28:1 — fails AA
Black text
16.37:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at16.37:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#8b716a 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
#faddd5
protanopia
#e1e1d5 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#e6e6d4 · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#ecec00 · ΔE00 32.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPeony Prize at ΔE00 0.432: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Peony PrizeΔE00 0.432 · #faddd4
- Botticelli AngelΔE00 0.719 · #fbdfd6
- Pink SangriaΔE00 0.861 · #f6dbd3
- Veiled PinkΔE00 1.074 · #f9dfd7
- Pink ShimmerΔE00 1.101 · #fde0da
- Light Shell TintΔE00 1.162 · #fce0d6
- Red ShimmerΔE00 1.22 · #fee0da
- PippinΔE00 1.304 · #fcdbd2
- Pale ShrimpΔE00 1.355 · #f8dbd6
- Bunny EarsΔE00 1.364 · #f9d9d2
- Pink GlitterΔE00 1.485 · #fddfda
- Air-KissΔE00 1.561 · #f6dcd2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.