Dream Setting
#ff77bb
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff77bb
RGB
255, 119, 187
OKLCh
74.8% 0.180 351.1°
CIELAB (D50)
68.4, 57.9, -9.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 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 47.4; on black, Lc -54.6. 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 27.6 and 25.4 and 66.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.44:1 — fails AA
Black text
8.61:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at8.61:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c8458b 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
#ff77bb
protanopia
#8f8fbc · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#aeaeb8 · ΔE00 25.4
tritanopia
#c9c900 · ΔE00 66.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPink Tease at ΔE00 1.892: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pink TeaseΔE00 1.892 · #ff81c0
- Persian PinkΔE00 1.935 · #f77fbe
- Pop That GumΔE00 1.973 · #f771b3
- Fěn Hóng PinkΔE00 1.993 · #ff6cb5
- Pink Plastic FantasticΔE00 2.092 · #fc80c3
- Pink Orchid MantisΔE00 2.263 · #fd82c3
- Girls Night OutΔE00 2.492 · #ff69b4
- Pink as HellΔE00 2.524 · #fe69b5
- Hot Pink FusionΔE00 2.529 · #fe69b6
- Tea RoseΔE00 2.639 · #f883c2
- ErythrosineΔE00 2.707 · #fc7ab0
- Crazy PinkΔE00 2.875 · #f970ac
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.