Aristocratic Velvet
#980b4a
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#980b4a
RGB
152, 11, 74
OKLCh
44.3% 0.172 3.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.2, 55.5, 4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 87.2; on black, Lc -14.9. 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 27.7 and 33.6 and 53.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.46:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.48:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.46:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#980b4a
protanopia
#37374b · ΔE00 27.7
deuteranopia
#575746 · ΔE00 33.6
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 53.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerry at ΔE00 0.38: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- BerryΔE00 0.38 · #990f4b
- Celestial PinkΔE00 0.79 · #9c004a
- Purple RedΔE00 0.865 · #990147
- Rose GarnetΔE00 1.202 · #960145
- Rum RicheΔE00 1.7 · #990044
- Hydrangea RedΔE00 2.021 · #9e194d
- Wine GrapeΔE00 2.342 · #941751
- Cherry PlumΔE00 2.461 · #a10047
- MulberryΔE00 2.464 · #920a4e
- Violet RedΔE00 2.992 · #a50055
- Manually Pressed GrapesΔE00 3.09 · #881144
- Akuma’s FuryΔE00 3.286 · #871646
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.