HueComb

Mystifying Magenta

#c920b0

A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#c920b0

RGB

201, 32, 176

OKLCh

58.2% 0.241 335.6°

CIELAB (D50)

47.8, 71.9, -35.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 93% 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 72.0; on black, Lc -29.7. 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 27.8 and 26.3 and 71.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.86:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.32:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.86:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#c920b0

protanopia

#4f4fb0 · ΔE00 27.8

deuteranopia

#7676ae · ΔE00 26.3

tritanopia

#949400 · ΔE00 71.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPerfectly Purple Place at ΔE00 1.573: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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