Infectious Love
#bb1177
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb1177
RGB
187, 17, 119
OKLCh
52.5% 0.210 351.9°
CIELAB (D50)
42.1, 66.3, -10.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.3; on black, Lc -23.5. 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 29.8 and 26.9 and 63.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.46:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb1177
protanopia
#464678 · ΔE00 29.8
deuteranopia
#6c6c74 · ΔE00 26.9
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 63.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEye Popping Cherry at ΔE00 0.777: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Eye Popping CherryΔE00 0.777 · #bb0077
- Purple AnxietyΔE00 1.237 · #c20078
- BotticelliΔE00 1.421 · #b70272
- Treasured LoveΔE00 1.425 · #bb2277
- King’s Plum PieΔE00 2.374 · #b3107a
- Rrosy-Fingered DawnΔE00 2.738 · #c11c84
- Bramble JamΔE00 2.854 · #c71581
- Medium Violet RedΔE00 3.243 · #c71585
- Carroburg CrimsonΔE00 3.425 · #a82a70
- Festival FuchsiaΔE00 3.445 · #aa2f78
- Very BerryΔE00 3.615 · #bb3381
- Plum KingdomΔE00 3.62 · #aa3377
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.