HueComb

Lick and Kiss

#ee5577

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

Hex

#ee5577

RGB

238, 85, 119

OKLCh

66.2% 0.189 10.5°

CIELAB (D50)

58.7, 61.5, 14.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.4; on black, Lc -41.3. 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 28.4 and 39.9 and 57.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.39:1 — large text only

Black text

6.20:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.20:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d53d63 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

#ee5577

protanopia

#757578 · ΔE00 28.4

deuteranopia

#989872 · ΔE00 39.9

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 57.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHighlighter Pink at ΔE00 0.906: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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