HueComb

Bordeaux

#7b002c

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

Hex

#7b002c

RGB

123, 0, 44

OKLCh

37.2% 0.149 11.1°

CIELAB (D50)

25.4, 48.2, 12.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
  • 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 93.6; on black, Lc -8.9. 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 25.9 and 34.4 and 44.6 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

11.18:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.88:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at11.18:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#7b002c

protanopia

#29292d · ΔE00 25.9

deuteranopia

#444428 · ΔE00 34.4

tritanopia

#585800 · ΔE00 44.6

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Claret at ΔE00 2.515: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. 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.