HueComb

Major Magenta

#f246a7

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

#f246a7

RGB

242, 70, 167

OKLCh

66.8% 0.225 350.3°

CIELAB (D50)

58.5, 71.3, -13.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • It uses 85% 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 60.1; on black, Lc -41.6. 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 31.4 and 27.6 and 69.5 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

3.38:1 — large text only

Black text

6.21:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at6.21:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#d92991 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

#f246a7

protanopia

#6d6da8 · ΔE00 31.4

deuteranopia

#9696a3 · ΔE00 27.6

tritanopia

#b6b600 · ΔE00 69.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFioletowy Purple at ΔE00 2.385: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

  • Fioletowy PurpleΔE00 2.385 · #fc44a3
  • Rose BonbonΔE00 2.592 · #f9429e
  • Persian RoseΔE00 2.65 · #fe28a2
  • Barbie PinkΔE00 2.671 · #fe46a5
  • Artificial StrawberryΔE00 2.763 · #ff43a4
  • Schiaparelli PinkΔE00 2.962 · #e84998
  • Spicy PinkΔE00 3.207 · #ff1cae
  • Raspberry PinkΔE00 3.447 · #e25098
  • Knockout PinkΔE00 3.517 · #ff399c
  • OrionΔE00 3.579 · #de55a9
  • Pink BiteΔE00 3.591 · #e936a7
  • Shocking PinkΔE00 3.723 · #fe02a2

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