HueComb

Frail Fuchsia

#ee88ee

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

Hex

#ee88ee

RGB

238, 136, 238

OKLCh

77.0% 0.176 327.1°

CIELAB (D50)

70.8, 50.5, -34.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 43.7; on black, Lc -58.4. 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 22.0 and 20.5 and 70.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.24:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b250b3 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

#ee88ee

protanopia

#9898ee · ΔE00 22.0

deuteranopia

#aeaeec · ΔE00 20.5

tritanopia

#c3c300 · ΔE00 70.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Magenta at ΔE00 1.218: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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