HueComb

Watermelon Sugar

#e42b73

A pink 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

#e42b73

RGB

228, 43, 115

OKLCh

60.8% 0.221 4.1°

CIELAB (D50)

51.9, 71.5, 7.5

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 90% 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 68.0; on black, Lc -33.7. 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 32.1 and 39.9 and 62.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.29:1 — large text only

Black text

4.89:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at4.89:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e02570 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

#e42b73

protanopia

#5d5d74 · ΔE00 32.1

deuteranopia

#87876e · ΔE00 39.9

tritanopia

#a9a900 · ΔE00 62.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFurious Fuchsia at ΔE00 1.733: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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