Pink Swirl
#fceae6
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#fceae6
RGB
252, 234, 230
OKLCh
95.0% 0.020 32.5°
CIELAB (D50)
94.1, 5.8, 4.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 38 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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 7.7; on black, Lc -96.6. 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 8.8 and 9.7 and 24.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.16:1 — fails AA
Black text
18.05:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at18.05:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#837370 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
#fceae6
protanopia
#ecece6 · ΔE00 8.8
deuteranopia
#efefe6 · ΔE00 9.7
tritanopia
#f3f39d · ΔE00 24.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isQuartz Light Pink at ΔE00 0.387: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Quartz Light PinkΔE00 0.387 · #fdeae6
- Hog-MawΔE00 0.543 · #fbe8e4
- Rose FrostΔE00 0.8 · #ffece9
- Pink DuetΔE00 0.862 · #f8e7e4
- Pomelo SugarΔE00 0.887 · #fce8e3
- Soft Pink MistΔE00 0.941 · #fdebe5
- Diluted OrangeΔE00 1.008 · #fbe8e2
- Sweet NothingΔE00 1.128 · #fae6e1
- FrolicΔE00 1.138 · #f9e7e1
- Wisp PinkΔE00 1.189 · #f9e8e2
- Spring PetalΔE00 1.222 · #f6e6e2
- Parchment WhiteΔE00 1.38 · #f9eae5
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.