Jellyfish Sting
#ee6688
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ee6688
RGB
238, 102, 136
OKLCh
68.7% 0.170 7.1°
CIELAB (D50)
61.7, 55.6, 9.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 56.6; on black, Lc -45.1. 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 27.3 and 35.9 and 57.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.05:1 — large text only
Black text
6.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at6.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#cc476b 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
#ee6688
protanopia
#7f7f89 · ΔE00 27.3
deuteranopia
#9e9e84 · ΔE00 35.9
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 57.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCupid’s Arrow at ΔE00 0.981: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cupid’s ArrowΔE00 0.981 · #ee6b8b
- Grapefruit JuiceΔE00 1.457 · #ee6d8a
- Coral ParadiseΔE00 1.651 · #e76682
- Rosy PinkΔE00 1.667 · #f6688e
- Watermelon JuiceΔE00 1.773 · #f05c85
- Out of FashionΔE00 1.782 · #f26d8f
- God’s Own Junkyard PinkΔE00 2.055 · #f56991
- Deep BlushΔE00 2.324 · #e36f8a
- LovelandΔE00 2.379 · #e6718d
- Kiss Me MoreΔE00 2.759 · #de6b86
- Cherry BrandyΔE00 2.774 · #e26b81
- Raspberry MousseΔE00 2.803 · #e06f8b
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.