Aphroditean Fuchsia

#dd14ab

A magenta that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#dd14ab

RGB

221, 20, 171

OKLCh

60.7% 0.254 342.2°

CIELAB (D50)

50.8, 77.6, -27.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 97% 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 68.4; on black, Lc -33.3. 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 31.0 and 28.3 and 72.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.41:1 — large text only

Black text

4.76:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.76:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#db0fa9 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

#dd14ab

protanopia

#5353ac · ΔE00 31.0

deuteranopia

#8080a8 · ΔE00 28.3

tritanopia

#a2a200 · ΔE00 72.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMelodramatic Magenta at ΔE00 0.955: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.