HueComb

Pink Elephants

#ff99ee

A magenta that is saturated. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#ff99ee

RGB

255, 153, 238

OKLCh

81.5% 0.160 333.3°

CIELAB (D50)

76.2, 47.7, -26.2

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 35.9; on black, Lc -66.6. 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 22.5 and 21.0 and 68.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.90:1 — fails AA

Black text

11.04:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at11.04:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#b253a4 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

#ff99ee

protanopia

#a9a9ee · ΔE00 22.5

deuteranopia

#bfbfec · ΔE00 21.0

tritanopia

#d3d300 · ΔE00 68.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLavender Rose at ΔE00 3.151: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. 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.