Bruised Plum
#3b1921
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#3b1921
RGB
59, 25, 33
OKLCh
26.6% 0.054 6.6°
CIELAB (D50)
14.2, 17.9, 2.7
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 uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.3; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 16.5 and 19.9 and 29.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.35:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3b1921
protanopia
#1f1f21 · ΔE00 16.5
deuteranopia
#262620 · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#2d2d00 · ΔE00 29.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack-Hearted at ΔE00 2.141: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Black-HeartedΔE00 2.141 · #3e1825
- Chocolate KissΔE00 2.346 · #3c1421
- Warm Balaclavas Are ForeverΔE00 2.76 · #3b1f23
- Rustic RedΔE00 3.075 · #3a181a
- Piermont Stone RedΔE00 3.12 · #43232c
- TemptressΔE00 3.174 · #3c2126
- Dark MahoganyΔE00 3.207 · #482029
- Nisemurasaki PurpleΔE00 3.273 · #43242a
- CastroΔE00 3.76 · #44232f
- New Bulgarian RoseΔE00 4.179 · #482427
- TamarindΔE00 4.301 · #341515
- Dark Red BrownΔE00 4.391 · #4a2125
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.