HueComb

Twinkle Pink

#fbd8cc

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

#fbd8cc

RGB

251, 216, 204

OKLCh

90.8% 0.043 39.8°

CIELAB (D50)

89.1, 11.2, 10.7

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 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 16.2; on black, Lc -87.5. 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 16.0 and 17.4 and 32.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.33:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.80:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.80:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8f7065 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

#fbd8cc

protanopia

#dcdccc · ΔE00 16.0

deuteranopia

#e3e3cb · ΔE00 17.4

tritanopia

#eaea00 · ΔE00 32.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYours Truly at ΔE00 0.361: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Yours TrulyΔE00 0.361 · #fbd9cd
  • CinderellaΔE00 0.6 · #fbd7cc
  • Scarlet ButterΔE00 0.656 · #f8d6cb
  • Deco ShellΔE00 0.7 · #f9d5c9
  • Blossom TintΔE00 0.709 · #fbd6ca
  • Fluffy PinkΔE00 0.84 · #f7d6cb
  • Strawberry WhipΔE00 0.847 · #f9d7cd
  • Shell TintΔE00 0.901 · #fdd7ca
  • Coral MantleΔE00 1.129 · #fcd6cb
  • Soft Orange BloomΔE00 1.236 · #ffdcd2
  • Scallop ShellΔE00 1.238 · #fbd8c9
  • Nutter ButterΔE00 1.246 · #f7d4c6

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