HueComb

Vampire Fangs

#cc2255

A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#cc2255

RGB

204, 34, 85

OKLCh

55.3% 0.202 10.8°

CIELAB (D50)

45.8, 65.6, 16.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 92% 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 74.8; on black, Lc -26.9. 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 29.5 and 41.8 and 57.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.35:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.93:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.35:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cc2255

protanopia

#515156 · ΔE00 29.5

deuteranopia

#78784f · ΔE00 41.8

tritanopia

#969600 · ΔE00 57.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Red at ΔE00 1.074: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.