HueComb

Cranberry Splash

#da5265

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

Hex

#da5265

RGB

218, 82, 101

OKLCh

62.4% 0.170 15.2°

CIELAB (D50)

54.5, 55.1, 19.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.6; on black, Lc -36.0. 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 29.8 and 38.8 and 52.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.91:1 — large text only

Black text

5.38:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.38:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#ce475b 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

#da5265

protanopia

#6d6d66 · ΔE00 29.8

deuteranopia

#8d8d60 · ΔE00 38.8

tritanopia

#a7a700 · ΔE00 52.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNectarous Nectarine at ΔE00 1.055: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.