Paper Hearts
#cc4466
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc4466
RGB
204, 68, 102
OKLCh
58.6% 0.172 9.2°
CIELAB (D50)
50.0, 56.2, 11.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.8; on black, Lc -30.8. 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 27.6 and 37.2 and 55.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.59:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc4466
protanopia
#616167 · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#808061 · ΔE00 37.2
tritanopia
#9b9b00 · ΔE00 55.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRoyal Banner at ΔE00 1.007: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Royal BannerΔE00 1.007 · #c74767
- California WineΔE00 1.622 · #ca4b65
- Dark PinkΔE00 2.026 · #cb416b
- Eros PinkΔE00 2.049 · #c84f68
- Vibrant RedΔE00 2.276 · #c24c6a
- Pink PunchΔE00 2.462 · #d04a70
- Fruit DoveΔE00 2.658 · #ca4f70
- Claret RedΔE00 2.694 · #c84c61
- Raspberry SorbetΔE00 2.886 · #d2386c
- CabaretΔE00 2.89 · #cd526c
- 1989 Miami HotlineΔE00 3.021 · #dd3366
- Raspberry JamΔE00 3.078 · #ca3767
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.