Pink Hysteria
#fe01b1
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
#fe01b1
RGB
254, 1, 177
OKLCh
66.1% 0.278 347.5°
CIELAB (D50)
56.8, 86.5, -21.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 60.7; on black, Lc -41.0. 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 34.5 and 30.0 and 75.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
3.59:1 — large text only
Black text
5.85:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.85:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#e1009c is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#fe01b1
protanopia
#5e5eb2 · ΔE00 34.5
deuteranopia
#9393ad · ΔE00 30.0
tritanopia
#baba00 · ΔE00 75.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMean Girls Lipstick at ΔE00 0.64: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mean Girls LipstickΔE00 0.64 · #ff00ae
- Bubblegum BrightΔE00 0.994 · #ff01b7
- Spicy PinkΔE00 1.319 · #ff1cae
- Ms. Pac-Man KissΔE00 1.351 · #ff00aa
- Brutal PinkΔE00 1.676 · #ff00bb
- Magnificent MagentaΔE00 2.535 · #ee22aa
- CGA PinkΔE00 2.698 · #fc0fc0
- Shocking PinkΔE00 2.758 · #fe02a2
- Fashion FuchsiaΔE00 2.958 · #f400a1
- Hollywood CeriseΔE00 3.095 · #f400a0
- Pink BiteΔE00 3.198 · #e936a7
- Persian RoseΔE00 3.62 · #fe28a2
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.