Wine Stain
#69444f
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#69444f
RGB
105, 68, 79
OKLCh
43.2% 0.053 0.2°
CIELAB (D50)
33.5, 17.7, 0.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.5; on black, Lc -13.7. 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 16.0 and 18.1 and 35.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.27:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.54:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.27:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#69444f
protanopia
#49494f · ΔE00 16.0
deuteranopia
#51514e · ΔE00 18.1
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 35.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Praline at ΔE00 0.825: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate PralineΔE00 0.825 · #66424d
- Mixed Berry JamΔE00 0.854 · #6a4652
- Misty GrapeΔE00 1.142 · #65434d
- Cryptic LightΔE00 1.543 · #6d434e
- Budōnezumi GrapeΔE00 1.737 · #63424b
- FinnΔE00 1.78 · #694554
- Catawba GrapeΔE00 1.816 · #634049
- Estate VineyardΔE00 2.081 · #68454b
- Vineyard WineΔE00 2.462 · #684047
- Plum HarvestΔE00 2.493 · #674555
- Shaded FuchsiaΔE00 2.599 · #664348
- Mauve WineΔE00 2.666 · #653c4a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.