Drops of God

#571e2f

A pink that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.

Hex

#571e2f

RGB

87, 30, 47

OKLCh

32.7% 0.086 4.6°

CIELAB (D50)

20.9, 28.1, 3.1

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.5; 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 20.9 and 25.7 and 36.4 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

12.87:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.63:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at12.87:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#571e2f

protanopia

#29292f · ΔE00 20.9

deuteranopia

#36362d · ΔE00 25.7

tritanopia

#414100 · ΔE00 36.4

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLargest Black Slug at ΔE00 0.634: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.