HueComb

Puff of Pink

#ffcbee

A magenta 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

#ffcbee

RGB

255, 203, 238

OKLCh

89.8% 0.074 338.6°

CIELAB (D50)

87.1, 23.1, -9.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 19.2; on black, Lc -84.3. 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 16.2 and 16.8 and 54.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.40:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.03:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.03:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#976888 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

#ffcbee

protanopia

#d2d2ee · ΔE00 16.2

deuteranopia

#dcdced · ΔE00 16.8

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 54.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInfra-White at ΔE00 0.334: 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.