Paprika
#7c2d37
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7c2d37
RGB
124, 45, 55
OKLCh
41.4% 0.110 15.7°
CIELAB (D50)
30.9, 35.6, 12.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.5; on black, Lc -11.8. 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 25.6 and 30.1 and 39.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.18:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.29:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.18:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7c2d37
protanopia
#3d3d38 · ΔE00 25.6
deuteranopia
#4f4f34 · ΔE00 30.1
tritanopia
#5e5e00 · ΔE00 39.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSyrah at ΔE00 1.007: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SyrahΔE00 1.007 · #792e35
- Wild CurrantΔE00 1.229 · #7c3239
- BicycletteΔE00 1.286 · #802c3a
- Mesa RidgeΔE00 1.513 · #772f39
- Amaranth BlossomΔE00 2.068 · #7b2331
- Scarlet ShadeΔE00 2.169 · #7e2530
- Blood OathΔE00 2.172 · #85323c
- Wine and UnwindΔE00 2.349 · #772c30
- Red Wine VinegarΔE00 2.375 · #722f37
- ShirazΔE00 2.404 · #842833
- SuōΔE00 2.436 · #7e2639
- TamarilloΔE00 2.567 · #752b2f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.