HueComb

Hindu Lotus

#ee4d83

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

Hex

#ee4d83

RGB

238, 77, 131

OKLCh

65.7% 0.200 4.0°

CIELAB (D50)

57.8, 65.2, 6.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 5 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 61.3; on black, Lc -40.4. 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 30.2 and 37.5 and 61.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.49:1 — large text only

Black text

6.02:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.02:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d73671 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

#ee4d83

protanopia

#707084 · ΔE00 30.2

deuteranopia

#96967e · ΔE00 37.5

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 61.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKacey’s Pink at ΔE00 1.284: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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