HueComb

Awkward Purple

#d208cc

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

#d208cc

RGB

210, 8, 204

OKLCh

60.4% 0.273 329.9°

CIELAB (D50)

49.7, 79.6, -48.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit 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 69.0; on black, Lc -32.7. 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 27.1 and 26.3 and 75.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.52:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.65:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.65:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#d208cc

protanopia

#4d4dcc · ΔE00 27.1

deuteranopia

#7979ca · ΔE00 26.3

tritanopia

#999900 · ΔE00 75.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFúchsia Intenso at ΔE00 1.216: 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.