Howling Pink
#e50752
A pink that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#e50752
RGB
229, 7, 82
OKLCh
58.8% 0.233 13.6°
CIELAB (D50)
49.6, 75.4, 24.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit 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 69.9; on black, Lc -31.8. 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 31.7 and 46.9 and 59.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.68:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.48:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.68:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e50752
protanopia
#555553 · ΔE00 31.7
deuteranopia
#848449 · ΔE00 46.9
tritanopia
#a7a700 · ΔE00 59.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Rush at ΔE00 1.446: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Rose RushΔE00 1.446 · #dd2255
- Strawberry SmashΔE00 1.844 · #ee0055
- FramboiseΔE00 1.891 · #e40058
- Red-EyeΔE00 2.055 · #dd1155
- Red WrathΔE00 2.262 · #ee1155
- Spanish CrimsonΔE00 2.383 · #e51a4c
- Chin-Chin CherryΔE00 2.573 · #dd3355
- Radiant RaspberryΔE00 2.627 · #e31b5d
- AngerΔE00 2.634 · #dd0055
- Cosmic RedΔE00 2.733 · #da244b
- Rock LobsterΔE00 2.754 · #f00b52
- RazzmatazzΔE00 2.801 · #e30b5c
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.