HueComb

Flamingo Queen

#cc33ff

A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#cc33ff

RGB

204, 51, 255

OKLCh

64.5% 0.285 315.5°

CIELAB (D50)

53.9, 77.5, -71.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits 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 64.3; on black, Lc -37.4. 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 21.5 and 21.5 and 76.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.83:1 — large text only

Black text

5.49:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.49:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bf1df1 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

#cc33ff

protanopia

#5858ff · ΔE00 21.5

deuteranopia

#7c7cfe · ΔE00 21.5

tritanopia

#989800 · ΔE00 76.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFlirtatious Flamingo at ΔE00 1.519: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.