HueComb

Feverish Passion

#de4d7b

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

Hex

#de4d7b

RGB

222, 77, 123

OKLCh

63.0% 0.183 4.6°

CIELAB (D50)

54.8, 59.8, 6.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.0; on black, Lc -36.6. 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 28.8 and 36.0 and 59.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.85:1 — large text only

Black text

5.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d14070 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

#de4d7b

protanopia

#6b6b7c · ΔE00 28.8

deuteranopia

#8d8d77 · ΔE00 36.0

tritanopia

#a9a900 · ΔE00 59.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Turkish Delight at ΔE00 0.833: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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