HueComb

Mellow Melon

#ee2266

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

#ee2266

RGB

238, 34, 102

OKLCh

61.8% 0.232 9.6°

CIELAB (D50)

52.9, 75.2, 17.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 94% 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 66.5; on black, Lc -35.1. 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 32.3 and 45.0 and 61.7 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

4.15:1 — large text only

Black text

5.06:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at5.06:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#e71560 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

#ee2266

protanopia

#5d5d67 · ΔE00 32.3

deuteranopia

#8c8c5f · ΔE00 45.0

tritanopia

#afaf00 · ΔE00 61.7

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBorderline Pink at ΔE00 1.154: 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.