HueComb

Lustful Wishes

#cc4499

A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#cc4499

RGB

204, 68, 153

OKLCh

60.3% 0.192 345.9°

CIELAB (D50)

51.3, 60.1, -16.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.0; on black, Lc -32.7. 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 27.9 and 25.4 and 65.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.33:1 — large text only

Black text

4.85:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.85:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c94196 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

#cc4499

protanopia

#616199 · ΔE00 27.9

deuteranopia

#808096 · ΔE00 25.4

tritanopia

#9b9b00 · ΔE00 65.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTwinkly Pinkily at ΔE00 1.52: 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.