Magentarama

#cf3476

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

Hex

#cf3476

RGB

207, 52, 118

OKLCh

58.0% 0.197 359.8°

CIELAB (D50)

48.8, 63.6, 0.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 71.8; on black, Lc -29.9. 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 30.0 and 33.2 and 61.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.77:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.41:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.77:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#cf3476

protanopia

#595977 · ΔE00 30.0

deuteranopia

#7e7e72 · ΔE00 33.2

tritanopia

#9a9a00 · ΔE00 61.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBeetroot Purple at ΔE00 0.862: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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