HueComb

Avant-Garde Pink

#ff77ee

A magenta that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.

Hex

#ff77ee

RGB

255, 119, 238

OKLCh

76.8% 0.214 332.4°

CIELAB (D50)

69.9, 63.3, -35.8

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 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 44.8; on black, Lc -57.3. 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 26.2 and 24.4 and 74.1 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.30:1 — fails AA

Black text

9.13:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at9.13:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#c33db5 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

#ff77ee

protanopia

#8f8fee · ΔE00 26.2

deuteranopia

#aeaeec · ΔE00 24.4

tritanopia

#c9c900 · ΔE00 74.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTechnolust at ΔE00 2.24: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.

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