HueComb

Eosin Pink

#ff5ec4

A magenta 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

#ff5ec4

RGB

255, 94, 196

OKLCh

72.2% 0.221 345.1°

CIELAB (D50)

64.7, 69.0, -20.5

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 52.2; on black, Lc -49.7. 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 29.9 and 27.0 and 71.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.75:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.65:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d2309d 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

#ff5ec4

protanopia

#7f7fc5 · ΔE00 29.9

deuteranopia

#a4a4c1 · ΔE00 27.0

tritanopia

#c4c400 · ΔE00 71.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Pink at ΔE00 1.686: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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