Rock’n’Rose
#fc8aaa
A pink that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#fc8aaa
RGB
252, 138, 170
OKLCh
76.6% 0.142 3.0°
CIELAB (D50)
71.1, 46.7, 3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 43.9; on black, Lc -58.3. 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 25.1 and 30.7 and 57.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.24:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.35:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.35:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#be5374 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
#fc8aaa
protanopia
#9d9dab · ΔE00 25.1
deuteranopia
#b5b5a7 · ΔE00 30.7
tritanopia
#cdcd00 · ΔE00 57.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Dreams at ΔE00 0.635: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Strawberry DreamsΔE00 0.635 · #ff88aa
- Tickle Me PinkΔE00 0.754 · #fc89ac
- PinkyΔE00 1.055 · #fc86aa
- Informative PinkΔE00 1.395 · #fe85ab
- RosaΔE00 1.49 · #fe86a4
- Schauss PinkΔE00 1.558 · #ff91af
- Bunny FluffΔE00 1.738 · #fb8da6
- Baker-Miller PinkΔE00 1.832 · #ff92ae
- Unripe StrawberryΔE00 1.94 · #f78fa7
- Pink MakeupΔE00 2.071 · #fc80a5
- Pink SherbetΔE00 2.338 · #f780a1
- AstilbeΔE00 2.679 · #f091a9
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.