HueComb

Turnip the Pink

#e5717b

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

Hex

#e5717b

RGB

229, 113, 123

OKLCh

68.6% 0.144 16.3°

CIELAB (D50)

62.1, 46.6, 16.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.3; on black, Lc -45.5. 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 28.4 and 35.1 and 50.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.01:1 — large text only

Black text

6.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c2525e 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

#e5717b

protanopia

#85857c · ΔE00 28.4

deuteranopia

#9f9f77 · ΔE00 35.1

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 50.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNatural Candy Pink at ΔE00 0.311: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.