HueComb

Purple Pizzazz

#fe4eda

A magenta 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

#fe4eda

RGB

254, 78, 218

OKLCh

71.4% 0.253 337.3°

CIELAB (D50)

63.1, 76.5, -35.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 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 53.7; on black, Lc -48.1. 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 29.9 and 27.6 and 76.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.87:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.32:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d61ab5 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

#fe4eda

protanopia

#7575db · ΔE00 29.9

deuteranopia

#9e9ed7 · ΔE00 27.6

tritanopia

#c0c000 · ΔE00 76.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlamingo Diva at ΔE00 1.228: 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.