HueComb

Schiaparelli Pink

#e84998

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

Hex

#e84998

RGB

232, 73, 152

OKLCh

65.0% 0.207 353.9°

CIELAB (D50)

56.7, 66.3, -7.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.5; on black, Lc -39.2. 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 30.5 and 26.9 and 66.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.60:1 — large text only

Black text

5.84:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.84:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d43587 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

#e84998

protanopia

#6c6c99 · ΔE00 30.5

deuteranopia

#919194 · ΔE00 26.9

tritanopia

#b0b000 · ΔE00 66.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaspberry Pink at ΔE00 1.131: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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