Merlot Fields
#712735
A pink that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#712735
RGB
113, 39, 53
OKLCh
38.7% 0.105 12.0°
CIELAB (D50)
27.7, 34.1, 9.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.2; on black, Lc -9.3. 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 23.4 and 29.4 and 39.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.28:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.04:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.28:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#712735
protanopia
#363635 · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#474732 · ΔE00 29.4
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 39.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSquid Hat at ΔE00 1.323: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Squid HatΔE00 1.323 · #6e2233
- Whisky ColaΔE00 1.787 · #772233
- Anthracite RedΔE00 1.842 · #73293b
- Red Wine VinegarΔE00 2.215 · #722f37
- Mesa RidgeΔE00 2.303 · #772f39
- Crystal Dark RedΔE00 2.543 · #6d2c32
- LovestruckΔE00 2.612 · #6a2e36
- Rocking ChairΔE00 2.66 · #721f37
- SuōΔE00 2.748 · #7e2639
- Brown MagentaΔE00 2.89 · #7b2039
- MonarchΔE00 2.896 · #6b252c
- Blackberry PieΔE00 2.899 · #64242e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.