HueComb

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#fdd0d5

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

#fdd0d5

RGB

253, 208, 213

OKLCh

89.8% 0.051 10.6°

CIELAB (D50)

87.5, 16.9, 3.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 94% 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 18.7; on black, Lc -84.8. 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 16.4 and 19.9 and 41.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.39:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.16:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.16:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#946c71 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

#fdd0d5

protanopia

#d6d6d5 · ΔE00 16.4

deuteranopia

#deded4 · ΔE00 19.9

tritanopia

#e8e800 · ΔE00 41.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPinktone at ΔE00 1.055: 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.