HueComb

Sugar Chic

#ffccff

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

Hex

#ffccff

RGB

255, 204, 255

OKLCh

90.5% 0.087 326.3°

CIELAB (D50)

87.8, 24.8, -17.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits 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 18.0; on black, Lc -85.5. 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 14.3 and 14.4 and 58.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.37:1 — fails AA

Black text

15.33:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at15.33:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#956796 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

#ffccff

protanopia

#d3d3ff · ΔE00 14.3

deuteranopia

#ddddfe · ΔE00 14.4

tritanopia

#e7e700 · ΔE00 58.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Diamond at ΔE00 1.786: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.