HueComb

Lilac Lotion

#ff3388

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

#ff3388

RGB

255, 51, 136

OKLCh

66.5% 0.241 2.1°

CIELAB (D50)

58.1, 77.8, 4.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 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 33.8 and 39.8 and 66.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.45:1 — large text only

Black text

6.08:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.08:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e70575 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

#ff3388

protanopia

#696989 · ΔE00 33.8

deuteranopia

#989882 · ΔE00 39.8

tritanopia

#bdbd00 · ΔE00 66.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaspberry Shortcake at ΔE00 0.546: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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