HueComb

Pink Pleasure

#ffdfe5

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

#ffdfe5

RGB

255, 223, 229

OKLCh

93.2% 0.036 5.0°

CIELAB (D50)

91.6, 12.1, 1.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 16 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 11.9; on black, Lc -92.1. 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 12.7 and 14.6 and 40.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.24:1 — fails AA

Black text

16.94:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at16.94:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#8c7075 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

#ffdfe5

protanopia

#e3e3e5 · ΔE00 12.7

deuteranopia

#e9e9e4 · ΔE00 14.6

tritanopia

#efef00 · ΔE00 40.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Mallow at ΔE00 0.867: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

  • Sweet MallowΔE00 0.867 · #ffdee2
  • Baby GirlΔE00 1.135 · #ffdfe8
  • Fresh PigletΔE00 1.204 · #fddde6
  • Tootie FruityΔE00 1.21 · #f9dbe2
  • Wishful ThinkingΔE00 1.254 · #fcdadf
  • Marshmallow HeartΔE00 1.293 · #f9dce3
  • Pink RibbonΔE00 1.391 · #f8dae1
  • Carousel PinkΔE00 1.43 · #f8dbe0
  • Bunny’s NoseΔE00 1.546 · #fad9dd
  • Sun Bleached PinkΔE00 1.629 · #fadadd
  • Barely PinkΔE00 1.743 · #f8d7dd
  • Watermelon MousseΔE00 1.802 · #fbe0e8

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