HueComb

Borderline Pink

#ee1166

A pink that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ee1166

RGB

238, 17, 102

OKLCh

61.1% 0.239 8.6°

CIELAB (D50)

52.1, 77.5, 16.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 67.2; on black, Lc -34.5. 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 33.1 and 45.3 and 62.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.28:1 — large text only

Black text

4.91:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.91:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e90263 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

#ee1166

protanopia

#595967 · ΔE00 33.1

deuteranopia

#8a8a5f · ΔE00 45.3

tritanopia

#aeae00 · ΔE00 62.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBourgeois at ΔE00 0.629: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.