Benevolent Pink
#dd1188
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
#dd1188
RGB
221, 17, 136
OKLCh
59.2% 0.238 353.7°
CIELAB (D50)
49.5, 75.4, -8.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.1; on black, Lc -31.6. 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 32.7 and 28.3 and 68.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.51:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#dd1188
protanopia
#535389 · ΔE00 32.7
deuteranopia
#808084 · ΔE00 28.3
tritanopia
#a2a200 · ΔE00 68.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThe Art of Seduction at ΔE00 0.628: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- The Art of SeductionΔE00 0.628 · #dd0088
- Myoga PurpleΔE00 1.544 · #e0218a
- Vivid CeriseΔE00 1.592 · #da1d81
- Dark Princess PinkΔE00 2.03 · #d9308a
- Highlighter LilacΔE00 2.178 · #d72e83
- Sensual ClimaxΔE00 2.514 · #da3287
- Shrine of PleasuresΔE00 2.964 · #cc3388
- Magenta PinkΔE00 3.194 · #cc338b
- Mexican PinkΔE00 3.371 · #e4007c
- Purple Heart KiwiΔE00 3.373 · #cc2288
- Vampire Love StoryΔE00 3.638 · #dd0077
- Mystic MagentaΔE00 3.67 · #e02e82
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.