HueComb

Piggy Bank

#ffccbb

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

#ffccbb

RGB

255, 204, 187

OKLCh

88.5% 0.063 39.2°

CIELAB (D50)

86.3, 16.8, 15.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 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 20.9; on black, Lc -82.5. 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 20.8 and 21.9 and 34.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.44:1 — fails AA

Black text

14.61:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at14.61:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#996c5d 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

#ffccbb

protanopia

#d3d3bb · ΔE00 20.8

deuteranopia

#ddddba · ΔE00 21.9

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 34.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDelicate Sweet Apricot at ΔE00 0.758: 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.