HueComb

Kisses

#ff66bb

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

Hex

#ff66bb

RGB

255, 102, 187

OKLCh

72.7% 0.205 349.0°

CIELAB (D50)

65.6, 65.1, -14.0

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 51.1; on black, Lc -50.8. 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 29.4 and 26.5 and 69.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.67:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.87:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.87:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d03892 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

#ff66bb

protanopia

#8484bc · ΔE00 29.4

deuteranopia

#a7a7b8 · ΔE00 26.5

tritanopia

#c5c500 · ΔE00 69.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHot Pink Fusion at ΔE00 1.277: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.