Creamy Strawberry
#fcd2df
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
#fcd2df
RGB
252, 210, 223
OKLCh
90.3% 0.050 357.6°
CIELAB (D50)
88.1, 16.7, -0.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 90% 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 17.7; on black, Lc -85.9. 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 15.3 and 16.6 and 44.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.36:1 — fails AA
Black text
15.42:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at15.42:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#926d79 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
#fcd2df
protanopia
#d7d7df · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#dfdfde · ΔE00 16.6
tritanopia
#e8e800 · ΔE00 44.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSummer Cosmos at ΔE00 0.819: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Summer CosmosΔE00 0.819 · #fad1e0
- Light PinkΔE00 1.038 · #ffd1df
- Poplar PinkΔE00 1.367 · #fed3e4
- Powder PinkΔE00 1.391 · #fdd6e5
- Pig PinkΔE00 1.439 · #fdd7e4
- Pink LaceΔE00 1.56 · #f6ccd7
- Bologna SausageΔE00 1.596 · #ffcfdc
- Icy PinkΔE00 1.653 · #f5ced8
- Pink SupremecyΔE00 1.756 · #ffd9e6
- Lover’s RetreatΔE00 1.817 · #f4ced8
- Strawberry MilkΔE00 1.832 · #ffd9e7
- Sunset PinkΔE00 2.009 · #fad6e5
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.