Berrylicious

#d75e6c

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

Hex

#d75e6c

RGB

215, 94, 108

OKLCh

63.6% 0.152 15.4°

CIELAB (D50)

56.1, 49.4, 17.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.8; on black, Lc -37.9. 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 28.7 and 36.2 and 50.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.68:1 — large text only

Black text

5.71:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.71:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c64f5e 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

#d75e6c

protanopia

#74746d · ΔE00 28.7

deuteranopia

#909068 · ΔE00 36.2

tritanopia

#a8a800 · ΔE00 50.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKōbai Red at ΔE00 0.944: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.