HueComb

Chaotic Roses

#bb2266

A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#bb2266

RGB

187, 34, 102

OKLCh

52.8% 0.192 0.2°

CIELAB (D50)

42.8, 62.0, 1.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 90% 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 78.1; on black, Lc -23.7. 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 33.3 and 59.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.94:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.53:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.94:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#bb2266

protanopia

#4b4b67 · ΔE00 29.4

deuteranopia

#6e6e62 · ΔE00 33.3

tritanopia

#8a8a00 · ΔE00 59.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpiced Purple at ΔE00 1.517: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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