Vampire Love Story
#dd0077
A pink that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#dd0077
RGB
221, 0, 119
OKLCh
58.2% 0.236 359.3°
CIELAB (D50)
48.5, 75.7, 0.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 70.8; on black, Lc -30.8. 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 33.2 and 36.0 and 65.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.34:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dd0077
protanopia
#515178 · ΔE00 33.2
deuteranopia
#7f7f72 · ΔE00 36.0
tritanopia
#a1a100 · ΔE00 65.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMexican Pink at ΔE00 1.628: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mexican PinkΔE00 1.628 · #e4007c
- Red PurpleΔE00 1.648 · #e40078
- Magenta ElephantΔE00 1.798 · #de0170
- Vivid CeriseΔE00 2.317 · #da1d81
- Pink PeacockΔE00 2.389 · #d3236f
- Fuchsia PurpleΔE00 2.822 · #d33479
- Beetroot PurpleΔE00 2.829 · #d33376
- Moth OrchidΔE00 2.876 · #d00172
- MagentaramaΔE00 2.957 · #cf3476
- Prince CharmingΔE00 3.068 · #cc2277
- Highlighter LilacΔE00 3.198 · #d72e83
- Self-LoveΔE00 3.281 · #d22b6d
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.