HueComb

Jealous Jellyfish

#bb0099

A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#bb0099

RGB

187, 0, 153

OKLCh

53.6% 0.234 339.0°

CIELAB (D50)

42.7, 70.7, -30.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • 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 76.9; on black, Lc -24.9. 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 28.0 and 26.5 and 69.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.88:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.57:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.88:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bb0099

protanopia

#434399 · ΔE00 28.0

deuteranopia

#6a6a97 · ΔE00 26.5

tritanopia

#888800 · ΔE00 69.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFuchsia Flourish at ΔE00 2.001: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. 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.