Love Surge

#ce1d51

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

Hex

#ce1d51

RGB

206, 29, 81

OKLCh

55.3% 0.207 12.1°

CIELAB (D50)

45.8, 67.0, 19.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 94% 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 74.8; on black, Lc -27.0. 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 29.5 and 43.0 and 56.8 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.36:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.92:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.36:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#ce1d51

protanopia

#505052 · ΔE00 29.5

deuteranopia

#78784a · ΔE00 43.0

tritanopia

#979700 · ΔE00 56.8

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Red at ΔE00 0.87: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.