Sugar Rush
#d85da1
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#d85da1
RGB
216, 93, 161
OKLCh
65.2% 0.171 348.6°
CIELAB (D50)
57.4, 54.4, -12.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.9; on black, Lc -39.8. 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 26.6 and 24.6 and 63.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.50:1 — large text only
Black text
6.00:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.00:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c3498e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d85da1
protanopia
#7474a1 · ΔE00 26.6
deuteranopia
#90909e · ΔE00 24.6
tritanopia
#a9a900 · ΔE00 63.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrushed Berries at ΔE00 1.615: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Crushed BerriesΔE00 1.615 · #d15b9b
- Phlox PinkΔE00 1.992 · #ce5e9a
- Bit of BerryΔE00 2.281 · #dd5599
- OrionΔE00 2.33 · #de55a9
- Nova PinkΔE00 2.681 · #d94f9a
- Mega MagentaΔE00 2.909 · #d767ad
- Nocturnal RoseΔE00 3.046 · #cc6699
- Raspberry PinkΔE00 3.164 · #e25098
- Super PinkΔE00 3.279 · #ce6ba6
- Cosmetologist’s PinkΔE00 3.293 · #dd669d
- Flirty RoseΔE00 3.385 · #d65e93
- Purple HollyhockΔE00 3.509 · #d96cad
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.