Love Letter
#e4658e
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#e4658e
RGB
228, 101, 142
OKLCh
67.3% 0.162 2.2°
CIELAB (D50)
60.1, 53.1, 3.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 58.7; on black, Lc -43.1. 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 26.9 and 32.1 and 58.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.21:1 — large text only
Black text
6.55:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.55:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#c74a75 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#e4658e
protanopia
#7c7c8f · ΔE00 26.9
deuteranopia
#99998a · ΔE00 32.1
tritanopia
#b3b300 · ΔE00 58.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGroovy at ΔE00 1.921: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GroovyΔE00 1.921 · #de6491
- Shadow Azalea PinkΔE00 2 · #e96a97
- Paris PinkΔE00 2.29 · #da6d91
- Surfer GirlΔE00 2.512 · #db6484
- Carmine RoseΔE00 2.547 · #e35b8f
- Shark BaitΔE00 2.586 · #ee6699
- Blush d’AmourΔE00 2.633 · #de5d83
- The SickenerΔE00 2.66 · #db7093
- Medium PinkΔE00 2.731 · #f36196
- Oxford SausageΔE00 2.766 · #db7192
- Raspberry MousseΔE00 2.875 · #e06f8b
- Power PeonyΔE00 2.905 · #ee5588
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.