Razzle Dazzle
#ba417b
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ba417b
RGB
186, 65, 123
OKLCh
56.1% 0.166 354.1°
CIELAB (D50)
46.9, 53.2, -5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 74.3; on black, Lc -27.5. 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 26.7 and 25.2 and 58.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ba417b
protanopia
#5a5a7c · ΔE00 26.7
deuteranopia
#767678 · ΔE00 25.2
tritanopia
#8e8e00 · ΔE00 58.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isValentino at ΔE00 1.44: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ValentinoΔE00 1.44 · #b64476
- Mauve MystiqueΔE00 1.634 · #bb4477
- Fuchsia RedΔE00 2.042 · #b73879
- Lilac RoseΔE00 2.181 · #bd4275
- Pink ShadowΔE00 2.298 · #bb3377
- Exuberant PinkΔE00 2.385 · #b54d7f
- Mystic MaroonΔE00 2.691 · #ad4379
- Orchid EcstasyΔE00 3.061 · #bb4488
- Fiery FuchsiaΔE00 3.097 · #b7386e
- Spicy PurpleΔE00 3.116 · #b9396e
- Nail Polish PinkΔE00 3.118 · #bd4e84
- SmittenΔE00 3.204 · #c84186
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.