HueComb

Jigglypuff

#ffaaff

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

Hex

#ffaaff

RGB

255, 170, 255

OKLCh

84.8% 0.146 326.8°

CIELAB (D50)

80.3, 41.6, -29.2

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 29.8; on black, Lc -73.0. 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 19.6 and 18.3 and 67.9 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.69:1 — fails AA

Black text

12.45:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at12.45:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#a859a9 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

#ffaaff

protanopia

#b6b6ff · ΔE00 19.6

deuteranopia

#c8c8fd · ΔE00 18.3

tritanopia

#d9d900 · ΔE00 67.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrawberry Buttercream at ΔE00 2.634: 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.