HueComb

Cotton Candy

#ffbcd9

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

Hex

#ffbcd9

RGB

255, 188, 217

OKLCh

86.5% 0.085 351.3°

CIELAB (D50)

83.2, 28.0, -4.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 25.6; on black, Lc -77.4. 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 19.5 and 20.5 and 53.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.56:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a16580 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

#ffbcd9

protanopia

#c5c5d9 · ΔE00 19.5

deuteranopia

#d3d3d7 · ΔE00 20.5

tritanopia

#e0e000 · ΔE00 53.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Bar at ΔE00 1.261: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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