Radishical

#ec4872

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

Hex

#ec4872

RGB

236, 72, 114

OKLCh

64.4% 0.201 9.7°

CIELAB (D50)

56.4, 65.3, 14.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.0; on black, Lc -38.7. 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 29.6 and 41.1 and 59.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.66:1 — large text only

Black text

5.74:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.74:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#da3563 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

#ec4872

protanopia

#6d6d73 · ΔE00 29.6

deuteranopia

#93936c · ΔE00 41.1

tritanopia

#b2b200 · ΔE00 59.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFuchsia Felicity at ΔE00 1.56: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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