Shrine of Pleasures
#cc3388
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc3388
RGB
204, 51, 136
OKLCh
58.1% 0.203 351.5°
CIELAB (D50)
48.6, 64.4, -10.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.8; on black, Lc -29.8. 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 29.6 and 26.6 and 64.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.78:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.40:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.78:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc3388
protanopia
#585889 · ΔE00 29.6
deuteranopia
#7c7c85 · ΔE00 26.6
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 64.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMagenta Pink at ΔE00 0.686: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Magenta PinkΔE00 0.686 · #cc338b
- Purple Heart KiwiΔE00 2.027 · #cc2288
- SmittenΔE00 2.039 · #c84186
- Dark Princess PinkΔE00 2.674 · #d9308a
- Highlighter LilacΔE00 2.9 · #d72e83
- Royal FuchsiaΔE00 2.942 · #ca2c92
- Benevolent PinkΔE00 2.964 · #dd1188
- The Art of SeductionΔE00 3.085 · #dd0088
- Magenta DyeΔE00 3.208 · #ca1f7b
- Boat OrchidΔE00 3.218 · #c0448f
- Vivid CeriseΔE00 3.25 · #da1d81
- Orchid EcstasyΔE00 3.303 · #bb4488
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.