HueComb

Bubblegum

#ff85ff

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

Hex

#ff85ff

RGB

255, 133, 255

OKLCh

79.4% 0.207 327.3°

CIELAB (D50)

73.0, 59.2, -40.4

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 4 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 40.4; on black, Lc -61.9. 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 24.1 and 22.6 and 74.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

2.09:1 — fails AA

Black text

10.05:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at10.05:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#bb44bc 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

#ff85ff

protanopia

#9999ff · ΔE00 24.1

deuteranopia

#b4b4fd · ΔE00 22.6

tritanopia

#cdcd00 · ΔE00 74.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDarling Bud at ΔE00 0.559: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

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