HueComb

Melodramatic Magenta

#dd22aa

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

#dd22aa

RGB

221, 34, 170

OKLCh

61.2% 0.246 342.7°

CIELAB (D50)

51.5, 75.5, -26.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 94% 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 67.9; on black, Lc -33.8. 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 30.8 and 28.0 and 72.0 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.30:1 — large text only

Black text

4.88:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.88:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d91ba7 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

#dd22aa

protanopia

#5757ab · ΔE00 30.8

deuteranopia

#8282a7 · ΔE00 28.0

tritanopia

#a3a300 · ΔE00 72.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAphroditean Fuchsia 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.