Twinkly Pinkily

#cf4796

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

Hex

#cf4796

RGB

207, 71, 150

OKLCh

60.9% 0.189 348.3°

CIELAB (D50)

52.1, 59.6, -13.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits 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 68.1; on black, Lc -33.6. 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 28.1 and 25.5 and 64.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.20:1 — large text only

Black text

4.99:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.99:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c94191 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

#cf4796

protanopia

#636397 · ΔE00 28.1

deuteranopia

#838393 · ΔE00 25.5

tritanopia

#9e9e00 · ΔE00 64.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLustful Wishes 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.