HueComb

Ballet Slippers

#fca2ad

A pink that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fca2ad

RGB

252, 162, 173

OKLCh

80.5% 0.107 11.8°

CIELAB (D50)

76.1, 35.2, 9.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 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 36.6; on black, Lc -65.8. 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 24.1 and 29.9 and 49.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.92:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b15e6a 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

#fca2ad

protanopia

#afafad · ΔE00 24.1

deuteranopia

#c2c2aa · ΔE00 29.9

tritanopia

#d5d500 · ΔE00 49.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSimple Pink at ΔE00 1.268: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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