HueComb

Matt Pink

#ffb6c1

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

Hex

#ffb6c1

RGB

255, 182, 193

OKLCh

84.7% 0.086 9.1°

CIELAB (D50)

81.3, 28.4, 5.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 9 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 28.7; on black, Lc -74.2. 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 21.4 and 27.0 and 47.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.65:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a6646f 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

#ffb6c1

protanopia

#c0c0c1 · ΔE00 21.4

deuteranopia

#cfcfbf · ΔE00 27.0

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 47.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCherry Blossom Pink at ΔE00 1.116: 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.