Baby Pink

#ffb7ce

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

Hex

#ffb7ce

RGB

255, 183, 206

OKLCh

85.3% 0.088 358.3°

CIELAB (D50)

81.8, 29.2, -0.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 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 27.9; on black, Lc -75.1. 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 20.7 and 23.2 and 51.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.63:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.92:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.92:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a4647a 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

#ffb7ce

protanopia

#c1c1ce · ΔE00 20.7

deuteranopia

#d0d0cc · ΔE00 23.2

tritanopia

#dede00 · ΔE00 51.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTentacle Pink at ΔE00 1.254: 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.