Sufficiently Ermine
Sufficiently Ermine (#FEEDF7) is a soft magenta with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (325°, 89%, 96%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary teal. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Latin sufficiēns, enough — adverbial-and-adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, sufficiently implies a neutral-and-enough-and-satisfactory quality where the hue carries the visual register of enough-and-satisfactory-and-fitting coordinated color-decision matched to its functional requirement. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to adequately and appropriately in usage.
Winter-pelage of Mustela erminea (stoat) — a Mustelidae mustelid-mammal whose summer-coat turns pure-white in winter (with characteristic black-tipped tail). Ermine color refers to a Mustela erminea winter-pelage on a Vermont mountainside in mid-January: a pure white with the matte finish of pure-white melanin-depleted winter-coat fur with the characteristic ermine black-tipped-tail-and-paws contrast pattern.
Closest matches
The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.
Variations
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Accessibility
How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.
The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.
Wide gamut
The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.
This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.