Pink Poison
#ff007e
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
#ff007e
RGB
255, 0, 126
OKLCh
64.5% 0.260 3.1°
CIELAB (D50)
55.6, 83.7, 7.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 62.5; on black, Lc -39.2. 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 35.6 and 42.9 and 67.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.78:1 — large text only
Black text
5.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#e80072 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
#ff007e
protanopia
#5e5e7f · ΔE00 35.6
deuteranopia
#939378 · ΔE00 42.9
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 67.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerry Blast at ΔE00 0.213: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Berry BlastΔE00 0.213 · #ff017f
- RoseΔE00 0.224 · #ff007f
- Neon RoseΔE00 0.447 · #ff0080
- Flickr PinkΔE00 1.348 · #fb0081
- Pink PianoΔE00 1.576 · #f62681
- Guns N’ RosesΔE00 1.595 · #ff0077
- Pucker UpΔE00 1.898 · #ff1177
- Reliquial RoseΔE00 2.07 · #ff2288
- Fancy FuchsiaΔE00 2.194 · #ff0088
- Pink InkΔE00 2.213 · #ff1476
- Strong PinkΔE00 2.34 · #ff0789
- Extra FuchsiaΔE00 2.522 · #ef347c
4 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.