Paradise Pink
#e4445e
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e4445e
RGB
228, 68, 94
OKLCh
62.3% 0.196 15.8°
CIELAB (D50)
54.1, 63.2, 23.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 65.9; on black, Lc -35.8. 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 32.2 and 42.6 and 55.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.97:1 — large text only
Black text
5.29:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#d93955 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
#e4445e
protanopia
#68685f · ΔE00 32.2
deuteranopia
#8d8d57 · ΔE00 42.6
tritanopia
#acac00 · ΔE00 55.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGeranium at ΔE00 1.45: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GeraniumΔE00 1.45 · #dc465d
- Tomato SceptreΔE00 1.713 · #e44458
- Guide PinkΔE00 1.878 · #eb4962
- Rouge RedΔE00 2.236 · #e24666
- Calypso CoralΔE00 2.24 · #ec4a61
- Clown NoseΔE00 2.29 · #e94257
- Smudged LipsΔE00 2.396 · #ee4466
- Cranberry SplashΔE00 2.444 · #da5265
- Celestial CoralΔE00 2.484 · #dd4455
- Radish LipsΔE00 2.493 · #ee3355
- Eugenia RedΔE00 2.646 · #ed3d66
- Nectarous NectarineΔE00 2.661 · #dd5566
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.