Bubblegum Baby Girl
#cc55ee
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
#cc55ee
RGB
204, 85, 238
OKLCh
66.4% 0.235 318.0°
CIELAB (D50)
57.2, 63.7, -56.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.1; on black, Lc -40.6. 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 21.3 and 20.6 and 73.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.44:1 — large text only
Black text
6.10:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.10:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b63ed8 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc55ee
protanopia
#6c6cee · ΔE00 21.3
deuteranopia
#8787ed · ΔE00 20.6
tritanopia
#9e9e00 · ΔE00 73.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeliotrope at ΔE00 2.141: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- HeliotropeΔE00 2.141 · #d94ff5
- Pink FeverΔE00 2.592 · #cc55ff
- Thick PinkΔE00 2.798 · #cc55dd
- After-Party PinkΔE00 2.838 · #c95efb
- Geisha PinkΔE00 3.093 · #dd44ff
- Apple II MagentaΔE00 3.127 · #dc41f1
- Flaming FlamingoΔE00 3.338 · #dd55ff
- Pink InsanityΔE00 3.406 · #cc44ff
- Jacaranda PinkΔE00 3.728 · #c760ff
- EpinkΔE00 3.97 · #dd33ff
- Purple SnailΔE00 4.174 · #cc69e4
- Sensual FumesΔE00 4.25 · #cd68e2
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.