HueComb

Hottest of Pinks

#ff80ff

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

Hex

#ff80ff

RGB

255, 128, 255

OKLCh

78.7% 0.214 327.4°

CIELAB (D50)

72.1, 61.5, -41.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 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 41.6; on black, Lc -60.6. 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 24.5 and 23.0 and 74.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.15:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.78:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.78:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bd40bf 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

#ff80ff

protanopia

#9696ff · ΔE00 24.5

deuteranopia

#b2b2fd · ΔE00 23.0

tritanopia

#cccc00 · ΔE00 74.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAtomic Pink at ΔE00 0.783: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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