HueComb

Watermelon Mousse

#fbe0e8

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

#fbe0e8

RGB

251, 224, 232

OKLCh

93.1% 0.031 357.8°

CIELAB (D50)

91.6, 10.6, -0.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 19 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 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 11.9; on black, Lc -92.1. 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 11.1 and 12.0 and 35.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.24:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.93:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.93:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#887178 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

#fbe0e8

protanopia

#e3e3e8 · ΔE00 11.1

deuteranopia

#e8e8e7 · ΔE00 12.0

tritanopia

#eeee6b · ΔE00 35.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCake Frosting at ΔE00 0.884: 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.