Fuchsia Fever
#ff5599
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff5599
RGB
255, 85, 153
OKLCh
69.8% 0.212 359.7°
CIELAB (D50)
62.2, 68.8, 0.5
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 55.6; on black, Lc -46.2. 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 31.1 and 34.3 and 65.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.00:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.01:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.01:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#da2f7b is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ff5599
protanopia
#7a7a9a · ΔE00 31.1
deuteranopia
#a1a194 · ΔE00 34.3
tritanopia
#c2c200 · ΔE00 65.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOleander Pink at ΔE00 1.091: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Oleander PinkΔE00 1.091 · #f85898
- PansyΔE00 1.581 · #f75394
- Neon SunsetΔE00 2.033 · #ff629f
- Medium PinkΔE00 2.237 · #f36196
- Magenta CrayonΔE00 2.267 · #ff55a3
- PinkellaΔE00 2.446 · #fe54a3
- French FuchsiaΔE00 3.075 · #fd3f92
- Shark BaitΔE00 3.136 · #ee6699
- French RoseΔE00 3.308 · #f64a8a
- Lower LipΔE00 3.49 · #f7468a
- French PinkΔE00 3.703 · #fd6c9e
- Stellar StrawberryΔE00 3.713 · #ff5c8d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.