HueComb

Stellar Strawberry

#ff5c8d

A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ff5c8d

RGB

255, 92, 141

OKLCh

70.2% 0.201 5.5°

CIELAB (D50)

63.0, 65.4, 8.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • 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 54.8; on black, Lc -47.0. 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 29.8 and 38.6 and 62.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.93:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.17:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.17:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d8366d 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

#ff5c8d

protanopia

#7e7e8e · ΔE00 29.8

deuteranopia

#a3a388 · ΔE00 38.6

tritanopia

#c3c300 · ΔE00 62.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRosy Pink at ΔE00 2.069: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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