Fake Love
#cc77ee
A magenta that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#cc77ee
RGB
204, 119, 238
OKLCh
70.7% 0.186 315.5°
CIELAB (D50)
63.2, 48.3, -46.9
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 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 53.9; on black, Lc -48.0. 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 18.1 and 17.2 and 70.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.82:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.44:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.44:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a652c7 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
#cc77ee
protanopia
#8484ee · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#9797ed · ΔE00 17.2
tritanopia
#a8a800 · ΔE00 70.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAzuremyst Isle at ΔE00 2.299: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Azuremyst IsleΔE00 2.299 · #cc81f0
- Calypso OrchidΔE00 2.581 · #d978f0
- Rosy Fluffy BedspreadΔE00 2.915 · #cc77ff
- Pink FetishΔE00 3.198 · #dd77ff
- Purple SnailΔE00 3.423 · #cc69e4
- Lavender PerceptionsΔE00 3.445 · #cb82e3
- Venus Slipper OrchidΔE00 3.446 · #df73ff
- Pink BonnetΔE00 3.522 · #dd77ee
- Illicit PurpleΔE00 3.719 · #bf77f6
- Lavender TeaΔE00 3.734 · #d783ff
- Sensual FumesΔE00 3.8 · #cd68e2
- Grass Pink OrchidΔE00 3.94 · #ca84fc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.