HueComb

Fever Dream

#dd5577

A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#dd5577

RGB

221, 85, 119

OKLCh

63.6% 0.172 8.0°

CIELAB (D50)

55.8, 56.0, 10.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 67% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.0; on black, Lc -37.7. 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 27.6 and 36.5 and 56.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.72:1 — large text only

Black text

5.64:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.64:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cd466a 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

#dd5577

protanopia

#707078 · ΔE00 27.6

deuteranopia

#8f8f73 · ΔE00 36.5

tritanopia

#aaaa00 · ΔE00 56.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRose Turkish Delight at ΔE00 1.81: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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