Mystic Magenta
#e02e82
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e02e82
RGB
224, 46, 130
OKLCh
60.8% 0.220 358.0°
CIELAB (D50)
51.7, 70.6, -1.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 89% 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 68.2; on black, Lc -33.5. 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 31.9 and 32.8 and 65.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.30:1 — large text only
Black text
4.88:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#dc297f 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
#e02e82
protanopia
#5c5c83 · ΔE00 31.9
deuteranopia
#86867e · ΔE00 32.8
tritanopia
#a6a600 · ΔE00 65.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSensual Climax at ΔE00 1.9: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sensual ClimaxΔE00 1.9 · #da3287
- Highlighter LilacΔE00 2.245 · #d72e83
- Fabulous FuchsiaΔE00 2.332 · #ee1188
- Mexican PinkΔE00 2.368 · #e4007c
- Cruel JewelΔE00 2.411 · #ee2288
- Feasty FuchsiaΔE00 2.469 · #ee0088
- PinkinityΔE00 2.533 · #e82a8e
- Myoga PurpleΔE00 2.573 · #e0218a
- Pink YarrowΔE00 2.619 · #d13d82
- Fuchsia PurpleΔE00 2.654 · #d33479
- Red PurpleΔE00 2.771 · #e40078
- Vivid CeriseΔE00 2.79 · #da1d81
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.