HueComb

Heather Berry

#e75480

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

Hex

#e75480

RGB

231, 84, 128

OKLCh

65.3% 0.184 5.4°

CIELAB (D50)

57.5, 60.2, 7.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 61.8; on black, Lc -39.9. 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 28.8 and 36.7 and 59.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.51:1 — large text only

Black text

5.98:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.98:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d13f6e 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

#e75480

protanopia

#727281 · ΔE00 28.8

deuteranopia

#94947c · ΔE00 36.7

tritanopia

#b1b100 · ΔE00 59.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKacey’s Pink at ΔE00 1.375: 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.