HueComb

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#fbd9cd

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

#fbd9cd

RGB

251, 217, 205

OKLCh

91.0% 0.041 40.4°

CIELAB (D50)

89.3, 10.8, 10.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 21 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 15.8; on black, Lc -87.9. 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 15.6 and 17.0 and 32.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.32:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8e7066 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

#fbd9cd

protanopia

#ddddcd · ΔE00 15.6

deuteranopia

#e4e4cc · ΔE00 17.0

tritanopia

#ebeb00 · ΔE00 32.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

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

  • Twinkle PinkΔE00 0.361 · #fbd8cc
  • Scarlet ButterΔE00 0.778 · #f8d6cb
  • Fluffy PinkΔE00 0.834 · #f7d6cb
  • CinderellaΔE00 0.9 · #fbd7cc
  • Strawberry WhipΔE00 0.935 · #f9d7cd
  • Deco ShellΔE00 1.019 · #f9d5c9
  • Blossom TintΔE00 1.07 · #fbd6ca
  • Scallop ShellΔE00 1.206 · #fbd8c9
  • Soft Orange BloomΔE00 1.212 · #ffdcd2
  • Shell TintΔE00 1.217 · #fdd7ca
  • PippinΔE00 1.296 · #fcdbd2
  • Light CarobΔE00 1.336 · #f9dbcf

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