HueComb

Prickly Pink

#f42c93

A pink 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

#f42c93

RGB

244, 44, 147

OKLCh

64.6% 0.242 355.8°

CIELAB (D50)

55.8, 77.2, -5.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 91% 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 63.1; on black, Lc -38.6. 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 33.6 and 30.4 and 69.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.73:1 — large text only

Black text

5.63:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.63:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e30d85 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

#f42c93

protanopia

#636394 · ΔE00 33.6

deuteranopia

#91918e · ΔE00 30.4

tritanopia

#b4b400 · ΔE00 69.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPhilippine Pink at ΔE00 1.517: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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