Chocolate Kiss

#3c1421

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

#3c1421

RGB

60, 20, 33

OKLCh

25.9% 0.065 2.4°

CIELAB (D50)

13.2, 21.2, 1.3

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.6; 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 17.9 and 21.1 and 31.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

15.98:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.31:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at15.98:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#3c1421

protanopia

#1c1c21 · ΔE00 17.9

deuteranopia

#252520 · ΔE00 21.1

tritanopia

#2d2d00 · ΔE00 31.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack-Hearted at ΔE00 1.213: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. 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.