Venus Slipper Orchid
#df73ff
A magenta that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#df73ff
RGB
223, 115, 255
OKLCh
73.2% 0.217 318.0°
CIELAB (D50)
65.6, 58.2, -52.3
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 50.5; on black, Lc -51.4. 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 20.8 and 19.9 and 73.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.61:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.03:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.03:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b246d0 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#df73ff
protanopia
#8585ff · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#9d9dfe · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 73.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Fetish at ΔE00 0.803: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pink FetishΔE00 0.803 · #dd77ff
- Calypso OrchidΔE00 2.402 · #d978f0
- Pink BonnetΔE00 2.886 · #dd77ee
- Hitsujiyama PinkΔE00 3.12 · #ee66ff
- Frijid PinkΔE00 3.136 · #ee77ff
- Ultra PinkΔE00 3.137 · #f06fff
- Fake LoveΔE00 3.446 · #cc77ee
- Lavender TeaΔE00 3.461 · #d783ff
- Rosy Fluffy BedspreadΔE00 3.798 · #cc77ff
- Azuremyst IsleΔE00 4.317 · #cc81f0
- Phenomenal PinkΔE00 4.806 · #ee55ff
- Pink PingΔE00 4.964 · #ee66ee
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.