Pink Orchid
#da70d6
A magenta that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#da70d6
RGB
218, 112, 214
OKLCh
70.2% 0.181 328.7°
CIELAB (D50)
62.8, 52.5, -34.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 54.7; on black, Lc -47.1. 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 22.7 and 21.2 and 69.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.89:1 — fails AA
Black text
7.27:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at7.27:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b54db2 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
#da70d6
protanopia
#8282d6 · ΔE00 22.7
deuteranopia
#9999d4 · ΔE00 21.2
tritanopia
#afaf00 · ΔE00 69.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Mauve at ΔE00 1.149: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- French MauveΔE00 1.149 · #d473d4
- Jewel CaterpillarΔE00 1.436 · #d374d5
- Hibiscus PopΔE00 1.801 · #dd77dd
- Purple KushΔE00 2.941 · #cc77cc
- Death of a StarΔE00 3.493 · #e760d2
- Free Speech MagentaΔE00 3.756 · #e35bd8
- Lián Hóng Lotus PinkΔE00 4.106 · #f075e6
- Pink BonnetΔE00 4.282 · #dd77ee
- Pink PingΔE00 4.319 · #ee66ee
- Gulābī PinkΔE00 4.37 · #c772c0
- BarbiecoreΔE00 4.426 · #e15acb
- Blueberry GlazeΔE00 4.76 · #cc66dd
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.