HueComb

Majestic Magenta

#ee4488

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

Hex

#ee4488

RGB

238, 68, 136

OKLCh

65.0% 0.212 0.8°

CIELAB (D50)

56.7, 68.5, 2.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 82% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 62.4; 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 31.4 and 35.6 and 64.2 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.61:1 — large text only

Black text

5.82:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.82:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#da2f78 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

#ee4488

protanopia

#6b6b89 · ΔE00 31.4

deuteranopia

#939383 · ΔE00 35.6

tritanopia

#b3b300 · ΔE00 64.2

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCerise Pink at ΔE00 1.495: 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.