HueComb

Vaporwave

#ff66ee

A magenta 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

#ff66ee

RGB

255, 102, 238

OKLCh

74.8% 0.238 332.3°

CIELAB (D50)

67.2, 70.3, -40.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits 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 48.3; on black, Lc -53.7. 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 27.5 and 25.7 and 76.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.50:1 — fails AA

Black text

8.39:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at8.39:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#cb2fbd 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

#ff66ee

protanopia

#8484ee · ΔE00 27.5

deuteranopia

#a7a7ec · ΔE00 25.7

tritanopia

#c5c500 · ΔE00 76.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCandy Pink at ΔE00 0.886: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.