Bat’s Blood Soup

#ee3366

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

#ee3366

RGB

238, 51, 102

OKLCh

62.7% 0.221 11.3°

CIELAB (D50)

54.2, 71.6, 18.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 88% 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 65.3; on black, Lc -36.3. 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 30.9 and 44.4 and 60.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.96:1 — large text only

Black text

5.30:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.30:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e3245d 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

#ee3366

protanopia

#636367 · ΔE00 30.9

deuteranopia

#8f8f5f · ΔE00 44.4

tritanopia

#b1b100 · ΔE00 60.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEugenia Red at ΔE00 1.318: 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.