HueComb

Pink Supremecy

#ffd9e6

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

#ffd9e6

RGB

255, 217, 230

OKLCh

92.1% 0.045 355.4°

CIELAB (D50)

90.2, 15.2, -1.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 15 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 14.2; on black, Lc -89.6. 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 14.2 and 15.0 and 44.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.29:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8f6e7a 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

#ffd9e6

protanopia

#dedee6 · ΔE00 14.2

deuteranopia

#e5e5e5 · ΔE00 15.0

tritanopia

#eded00 · ΔE00 44.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Milk at ΔE00 0.347: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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