HueComb

Kirby

#d74894

A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#d74894

RGB

215, 72, 148

OKLCh

62.2% 0.193 351.4°

CIELAB (D50)

53.6, 61.4, -10.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 66.4; on black, Lc -35.3. 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 29.0 and 26.1 and 64.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.00:1 — large text only

Black text

5.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cd3e8b 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

#d74894

protanopia

#666695 · ΔE00 29.0

deuteranopia

#888891 · ΔE00 26.1

tritanopia

#a3a300 · ΔE00 64.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrunus Avium at ΔE00 1.301: 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.