HueComb

Barbiecore

#e15acb

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

Hex

#e15acb

RGB

225, 90, 203

OKLCh

67.9% 0.210 334.5°

CIELAB (D50)

59.6, 62.8, -32.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 69% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.6; on black, Lc -43.1. 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 26.4 and 24.5 and 71.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.22:1 — large text only

Black text

6.53:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.53:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c43eb0 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

#e15acb

protanopia

#7474cb · ΔE00 26.4

deuteranopia

#9393c9 · ΔE00 24.5

tritanopia

#aeae00 · ΔE00 71.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFuchsia Flash at ΔE00 1.52: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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