HueComb

Flaming Flamingo

#dd55ff

A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#dd55ff

RGB

221, 85, 255

OKLCh

69.5% 0.257 318.9°

CIELAB (D50)

60.5, 70.2, -60.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.8; on black, Lc -45.0. 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 22.6 and 22.0 and 76.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.08:1 — large text only

Black text

6.82:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.82:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#be30df 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

#dd55ff

protanopia

#7070ff · ΔE00 22.6

deuteranopia

#8f8ffd · ΔE00 22.0

tritanopia

#aaaa00 · ΔE00 76.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeliotrope at ΔE00 1.883: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • HeliotropeΔE00 1.883 · #d94ff5
  • Geisha PinkΔE00 2.339 · #dd44ff
  • Phenomenal PinkΔE00 3.227 · #ee55ff
  • Pink FeverΔE00 3.317 · #cc55ff
  • Bubblegum Baby GirlΔE00 3.338 · #cc55ee
  • Clematis MagentaΔE00 3.369 · #e05aec
  • After-Party PinkΔE00 3.486 · #c95efb
  • Apple II MagentaΔE00 3.629 · #dc41f1
  • Jacaranda PinkΔE00 4.137 · #c760ff
  • EpinkΔE00 4.196 · #dd33ff
  • Purple SnailΔE00 4.709 · #cc69e4
  • Sensual FumesΔE00 4.818 · #cd68e2

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