Plastic Lips
#aa2266
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa2266
RGB
170, 34, 102
OKLCh
49.8% 0.179 355.9°
CIELAB (D50)
39.4, 57.4, -4.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 88% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.7; on black, Lc -20.2. 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 27.8 and 27.2 and 58.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa2266
protanopia
#454567 · ΔE00 27.8
deuteranopia
#656563 · ΔE00 27.2
tritanopia
#7d7d00 · ΔE00 58.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlum Paradise at ΔE00 1.669: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Plum ParadiseΔE00 1.669 · #aa1166
- VivaciousΔE00 2.209 · #a7295f
- Amaranth Deep PurpleΔE00 2.485 · #9f2b68
- Velvet CupcakeΔE00 2.581 · #aa0066
- Carroburg CrimsonΔE00 2.586 · #a82a70
- Banafsaji PurpleΔE00 2.588 · #a50b5e
- Rich MaroonΔE00 2.715 · #b0306a
- Parlour RedΔE00 2.881 · #a12d5d
- Thorne WinesΔE00 3.088 · #9c2d5d
- Aztec WarriorΔE00 3.19 · #bb0066
- Spiced PurpleΔE00 3.352 · #bb1166
- BotticelliΔE00 3.363 · #b70272
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.