Munch on Melon

#f23e67

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

Hex

#f23e67

RGB

242, 62, 103

OKLCh

64.3% 0.215 12.9°

CIELAB (D50)

56.1, 69.7, 21.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 86% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 63.2; on black, Lc -38.4. 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 30.6 and 44.4 and 59.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.71:1 — large text only

Black text

5.66:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.66:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e12a59 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

#f23e67

protanopia

#696968 · ΔE00 30.6

deuteranopia

#949460 · ΔE00 44.4

tritanopia

#b5b500 · ΔE00 59.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmudged Lips at ΔE00 0.903: 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.