HueComb

Sweetly

#ffe5ef

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

#ffe5ef

RGB

255, 229, 239

OKLCh

94.6% 0.031 352.4°

CIELAB (D50)

93.3, 10.4, -1.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 10 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 9.0; on black, Lc -95.2. 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 10.7 and 11.3 and 35.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.19:1 — fails AA

Black text

17.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at17.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#87717a 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

#ffe5ef

protanopia

#e8e8ef · ΔE00 10.7

deuteranopia

#ededee · ΔE00 11.3

tritanopia

#f2f27f · ΔE00 35.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCherubic at ΔE00 0.551: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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