HueComb

Kinky Pinky

#ee55cc

A magenta 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

#ee55cc

RGB

238, 85, 204

OKLCh

69.2% 0.226 337.7°

CIELAB (D50)

61.0, 68.4, -31.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.8; on black, Lc -44.9. 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 26.1 and 72.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.09:1 — large text only

Black text

6.81:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.81:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cd32ae 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

#ee55cc

protanopia

#7575cc · ΔE00 28.4

deuteranopia

#9898c9 · ΔE00 26.1

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 72.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeath of a Star at ΔE00 2.158: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. 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.