Shocking Pink
#fe02a2
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
#fe02a2
RGB
254, 2, 162
OKLCh
65.5% 0.271 351.9°
CIELAB (D50)
56.4, 85.4, -13.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.4; on black, Lc -40.3. 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 35.2 and 29.7 and 73.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.66:1 — large text only
Black text
5.74:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.74:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#e30090 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#fe02a2
protanopia
#5e5ea3 · ΔE00 35.2
deuteranopia
#93939d · ΔE00 29.7
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 73.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMs. Pac-Man Kiss at ΔE00 1.429: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ms. Pac-Man KissΔE00 1.429 · #ff00aa
- Neon PinkΔE00 1.539 · #fe019a
- Persian RoseΔE00 1.689 · #fe28a2
- Big Bang PinkΔE00 1.825 · #ff0099
- Burning RaspberryΔE00 1.875 · #ff0599
- Forgiven SinΔE00 2.045 · #ff1199
- Mean Girls LipstickΔE00 2.151 · #ff00ae
- Hollywood CeriseΔE00 2.17 · #f400a0
- Spicy PinkΔE00 2.171 · #ff1cae
- Fashion FuchsiaΔE00 2.22 · #f400a1
- Pink HysteriaΔE00 2.758 · #fe01b1
- Fanatic FuchsiaΔE00 3.078 · #ee1199
4 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.