Unicorn Dust
#ff2f92
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
#ff2f92
RGB
255, 47, 146
OKLCh
66.6% 0.247 358.4°
CIELAB (D50)
58.1, 79.2, -1.4
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 60.3; on black, Lc -41.4. 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 34.2 and 35.4 and 68.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.46:1 — large text only
Black text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#e6007f 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
#ff2f92
protanopia
#686893 · ΔE00 34.2
deuteranopia
#98988d · ΔE00 35.4
tritanopia
#bdbd00 · ΔE00 68.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWild Strawberry at ΔE00 1.386: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Wild StrawberryΔE00 1.386 · #ff3399
- French FuchsiaΔE00 1.487 · #fd3f92
- Secret StoryΔE00 1.891 · #ff1493
- Knockout PinkΔE00 1.968 · #ff399c
- Reliquial RoseΔE00 1.996 · #ff2288
- Fluorescent PinkΔE00 2.064 · #fe1493
- Electric PinkΔE00 2.185 · #ff0490
- Hot PinkΔE00 2.196 · #ff028d
- Philippine PinkΔE00 2.232 · #fa1a8e
- Pink PantherΔE00 2.289 · #ff0090
- Strong PinkΔE00 2.32 · #ff0789
- Lilac LotionΔE00 2.409 · #ff3388
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.