Shimmering Love
#ff88cc
A pink that is saturated. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#ff88cc
RGB
255, 136, 204
OKLCh
77.7% 0.163 346.2°
CIELAB (D50)
71.9, 51.9, -14.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 42.4; on black, Lc -59.8. 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 25.5 and 23.8 and 65.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
2.18:1 — fails AA
Black text
9.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at9.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#be4d91 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ff88cc
protanopia
#9c9ccc · ΔE00 25.5
deuteranopia
#b6b6c9 · ΔE00 23.8
tritanopia
#cece00 · ΔE00 65.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrincess Perfume at ΔE00 1.121: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Princess PerfumeΔE00 1.121 · #ff85cf
- Bubblegum BeamΔE00 1.214 · #f887c7
- Pout PinkΔE00 1.537 · #ff82ce
- Pink Orchid MantisΔE00 1.783 · #fd82c3
- Tea RoseΔE00 1.93 · #f883c2
- Pink Plastic FantasticΔE00 1.952 · #fc80c3
- Pink TeaseΔE00 2.464 · #ff81c0
- Pink DelightΔE00 2.499 · #ff8ad8
- Persian PinkΔE00 2.783 · #f77fbe
- Blushed BombshellΔE00 3.246 · #ee88cc
- Dream SettingΔE00 3.929 · #ff77bb
- Himalayan BalsamΔE00 4.015 · #ff99cc
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.