HueComb

Rubylicious

#db1459

A pink that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#db1459

RGB

219, 20, 89

OKLCh

57.5% 0.222 10.4°

CIELAB (D50)

48.1, 72.0, 17.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 97% 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 71.9; on black, Lc -29.8. 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 44.3 and 59.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.93:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.26:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.93:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#db1459

protanopia

#53535a · ΔE00 31.2

deuteranopia

#7f7f52 · ΔE00 44.3

tritanopia

#a0a000 · ΔE00 59.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAnger at ΔE00 0.978: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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