Peach Scone
#ffbcbc
A red 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
#ffbcbc
RGB
255, 188, 188
OKLCh
85.7% 0.078 18.8°
CIELAB (D50)
82.6, 24.9, 10.0
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 26.8; on black, Lc -76.2. 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 23.2 and 26.6 and 43.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.59:1 — fails AA
Black text
13.17:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at13.17:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a36767 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
#ffbcbc
protanopia
#c5c5bc · ΔE00 23.2
deuteranopia
#d3d3ba · ΔE00 26.6
tritanopia
#e0e000 · ΔE00 43.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHard Candy at ΔE00 0.265: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hard CandyΔE00 0.265 · #ffbbbb
- Young SalmonΔE00 1.819 · #ffb6b4
- Precious PinkΔE00 1.899 · #f6b5b6
- Peach WhisperΔE00 2.103 · #f9bab5
- Carnation BloomΔE00 2.153 · #f9c0be
- Ballerina PinkΔE00 2.167 · #f7b6ba
- LadylikeΔE00 2.276 · #ffc3bf
- Spanish PinkΔE00 2.284 · #f7bfbe
- Pink and SleekΔE00 2.325 · #ffc3c6
- Delhi Dance PinkΔE00 2.352 · #fdc1c5
- Old FlameΔE00 2.452 · #f2b7b5
- Wildflower BouquetΔE00 2.545 · #ffb3b1
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.