Prince Charming

#cc2277

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

Hex

#cc2277

RGB

204, 34, 119

OKLCh

56.3% 0.211 357.0°

CIELAB (D50)

46.6, 67.5, -3.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 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 73.9; on black, Lc -27.8. 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 30.9 and 30.7 and 63.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.17:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.06:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.17:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cc2277

protanopia

#515178 · ΔE00 30.9

deuteranopia

#787873 · ΔE00 30.7

tritanopia

#969600 · ΔE00 63.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrazy Ex at ΔE00 1.313: 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.