HueComb

Magenta Elephant

#de0170

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

#de0170

RGB

222, 1, 112

OKLCh

58.2% 0.235 2.0°

CIELAB (D50)

48.6, 75.5, 4.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 70.8; on black, Lc -30.8. 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 33.2 and 39.2 and 64.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.83:1 — passes AA

Black text

4.34:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at4.83:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#de0170

protanopia

#515171 · ΔE00 33.2

deuteranopia

#80806b · ΔE00 39.2

tritanopia

#a2a200 · ΔE00 64.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVampire Love Story at ΔE00 1.798: 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.