Bubblegum Kisses

#f092d6

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

Hex

#f092d6

RGB

240, 146, 214

OKLCh

77.8% 0.141 337.9°

CIELAB (D50)

72.3, 43.2, -19.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 41.9; on black, Lc -60.3. 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 21.9 and 20.7 and 64.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.79:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.79:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b05799 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

#f092d6

protanopia

#a0a0d6 · ΔE00 21.9

deuteranopia

#b4b4d4 · ΔE00 20.7

tritanopia

#c8c800 · ΔE00 64.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMayflower Orchid at ΔE00 0.729: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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