HueComb

Flirtatious Flamingo

#cc22ff

A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#cc22ff

RGB

204, 34, 255

OKLCh

63.6% 0.296 316.0°

CIELAB (D50)

52.6, 81.2, -73.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • 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 65.4; on black, Lc -36.2. 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 21.8 and 22.0 and 77.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.01:1 — large text only

Black text

5.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c307f5 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cc22ff

protanopia

#5151ff · ΔE00 21.8

deuteranopia

#7878fe · ΔE00 22.0

tritanopia

#969600 · ΔE00 77.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSparkling Purple at ΔE00 0.958: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.