Love Potion
#ce145e
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ce145e
RGB
206, 20, 94
OKLCh
55.2% 0.213 6.4°
CIELAB (D50)
45.5, 69.0, 10.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.8; on black, Lc -26.9. 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 31.2 and 40.8 and 60.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.89:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ce145e
protanopia
#4e4e5f · ΔE00 31.2
deuteranopia
#777758 · ΔE00 40.8
tritanopia
#979700 · ΔE00 60.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isYearning Desire at ΔE00 1.025: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Yearning DesireΔE00 1.025 · #ca135e
- Bright RoseΔE00 1.822 · #c51959
- Sensitive ScorpionΔE00 1.967 · #cc2266
- Red-Letter DayΔE00 2.068 · #cc0055
- Rubine RedΔE00 2.107 · #d10056
- Love JuiceΔE00 2.212 · #cc1155
- RowanΔE00 2.279 · #cb0162
- Tête-à-TêteΔE00 2.364 · #d90166
- Xīpe Totēc RedΔE00 2.5 · #cc1166
- Dogwood RoseΔE00 2.6 · #d71868
- Secret AffairΔE00 2.808 · #c41661
- Maroon LightΔE00 2.842 · #bf3160
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.