Fugitive Flamingo
#ee66aa
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee66aa
RGB
238, 102, 170
OKLCh
69.8% 0.182 351.7°
CIELAB (D50)
62.5, 58.3, -9.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.4; on black, Lc -46.4. 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 27.9 and 25.6 and 65.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.95:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.12:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.12:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c9448a is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ee66aa
protanopia
#7f7fab · ΔE00 27.9
deuteranopia
#9e9ea7 · ΔE00 25.6
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 65.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmaranth at ΔE00 1.692: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- AmaranthΔE00 1.692 · #e86ead
- Pop That GumΔE00 2.89 · #f771b3
- Pink as HellΔE00 2.988 · #fe69b5
- Hot Pink FusionΔE00 3.046 · #fe69b6
- Girls Night OutΔE00 3.092 · #ff69b4
- China PinkΔE00 3.095 · #df6ea1
- Pink KatydidΔE00 3.099 · #ff55aa
- Yíng Guāng Sè PinkΔE00 3.162 · #ff69af
- Thulian PinkΔE00 3.228 · #df6fa1
- Liseran PurpleΔE00 3.307 · #de6fa1
- Cosmetologist’s PinkΔE00 3.339 · #dd669d
- Crazy PinkΔE00 3.356 · #f970ac
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.