Merlot
#730039
A pink that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#730039
RGB
115, 0, 57
OKLCh
35.9% 0.146 0.6°
CIELAB (D50)
23.9, 46.7, 1.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.9; on black, Lc -7.7. 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 25.1 and 29.6 and 47.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#730039
protanopia
#262639 · ΔE00 25.1
deuteranopia
#3f3f36 · ΔE00 29.6
tritanopia
#525200 · ΔE00 47.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHer Fierceness at ΔE00 1.808: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Her FiercenessΔE00 1.808 · #6f123c
- WineΔE00 2.64 · #80013f
- Dawn of the FairiesΔE00 3.036 · #770044
- Renanthera OrchidΔE00 3.638 · #820747
- Spanish PurpleΔE00 4.099 · #66033c
- Tyrian PurpleΔE00 4.149 · #66023c
- Caviar CoutureΔE00 4.167 · #772244
- Midnight MerlotΔE00 4.213 · #880044
- Inescapable LoverΔE00 4.283 · #820e3b
- Pansy PurpleΔE00 4.295 · #78184a
- Deep ClaretΔE00 4.314 · #771133
- Burgundy OrchidΔE00 4.433 · #811d45
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.