HueComb

Strawberry Frappé

#ffa2aa

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

Hex

#ffa2aa

RGB

255, 162, 170

OKLCh

80.7% 0.111 14.2°

CIELAB (D50)

76.4, 36.1, 11.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 36.2; on black, Lc -66.3. 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 25.5 and 30.5 and 49.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.91:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b25d66 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

#ffa2aa

protanopia

#b0b0aa · ΔE00 25.5

deuteranopia

#c3c3a7 · ΔE00 30.5

tritanopia

#d7d700 · ΔE00 49.1

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 1.144: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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