Beet Red
#7e203f
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7e203f
RGB
126, 32, 63
OKLCh
40.5% 0.130 5.3°
CIELAB (D50)
29.4, 42.2, 5.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.4; on black, Lc -10.9. 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 24.5 and 30.6 and 45.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.70:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.17:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.70:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7e203f
protanopia
#36363f · ΔE00 24.5
deuteranopia
#4b4b3c · ΔE00 30.6
tritanopia
#5d5d00 · ΔE00 45.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBrown Magenta at ΔE00 1.878: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Brown MagentaΔE00 1.878 · #7b2039
- Atlas RedΔE00 1.986 · #82193a
- Burgundy OrchidΔE00 2.113 · #811d45
- Inescapable LoverΔE00 2.216 · #820e3b
- Ember RedΔE00 2.661 · #792445
- Rocking ChairΔE00 2.695 · #721f37
- Akuma’s FuryΔE00 2.872 · #871646
- Manually Pressed GrapesΔE00 2.889 · #881144
- RhododendronΔE00 2.92 · #7d2f45
- Caviar CoutureΔE00 2.97 · #772244
- Red PlumΔE00 3.126 · #7c2949
- Deep ClaretΔE00 3.128 · #771133
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.