HueComb

Death of a Star

#e760d2

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

Hex

#e760d2

RGB

231, 96, 210

OKLCh

69.7% 0.211 334.1°

CIELAB (D50)

61.7, 62.8, -33.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 55.9; on black, Lc -45.8. 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 26.4 and 24.5 and 71.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.00:1 — fails AA

Black text

7.00:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at7.00:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c43eb1 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

#e760d2

protanopia

#7a7ad2 · ΔE00 26.4

deuteranopia

#9999d0 · ΔE00 24.5

tritanopia

#b3b300 · ΔE00 71.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBarbiecore at ΔE00 1.843: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

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