HueComb

Pink

#ffc0cb

A pink 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

#ffc0cb

RGB

255, 192, 203

OKLCh

86.8% 0.073 7.1°

CIELAB (D50)

83.8, 24.4, 3.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • 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 24.8; on black, Lc -78.3. 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 19.8 and 24.4 and 46.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.54:1 — fails AA

Black text

13.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at13.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#9f6772 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

#ffc0cb

protanopia

#c8c8cb · ΔE00 19.8

deuteranopia

#d5d5c9 · ΔE00 24.4

tritanopia

#e2e200 · ΔE00 46.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLove Affair at ΔE00 0.713: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.