HueComb

Feverish

#dd6677

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

Hex

#dd6677

RGB

221, 102, 119

OKLCh

65.9% 0.149 13.3°

CIELAB (D50)

58.7, 48.6, 14.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 64% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.6; on black, Lc -41.2. 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 27.2 and 35.3 and 51.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.36:1 — large text only

Black text

6.24:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.24:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c45062 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

#dd6677

protanopia

#7b7b78 · ΔE00 27.2

deuteranopia

#969673 · ΔE00 35.3

tritanopia

#aeae00 · ΔE00 51.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSlice of Watermelon at ΔE00 1.279: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.