Queen of Hearts
#98333a
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#98333a
RGB
152, 51, 58
OKLCh
47.0% 0.135 20.0°
CIELAB (D50)
37.1, 43.2, 20.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.6; on black, Lc -17.4. 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 28.6 and 33.8 and 42.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.87:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#98333a
protanopia
#48483b · ΔE00 28.6
deuteranopia
#5f5f35 · ΔE00 33.8
tritanopia
#737300 · ΔE00 42.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRomantic Night at ΔE00 0.583: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Romantic NightΔE00 0.583 · #96353a
- Pomegranate SeedsΔE00 1.01 · #95313a
- Fire ChiΔE00 1.248 · #92353a
- Shin GodzillaΔE00 1.27 · #9a373f
- Wine CaskΔE00 1.436 · #913338
- Sehnsucht RedΔE00 1.817 · #903037
- Vintage RedΔE00 2.009 · #9e3641
- Red OchreΔE00 2.01 · #953334
- Polished GarnetΔE00 2.012 · #953640
- Cochineal RedΔE00 2.154 · #9d2933
- Ruby SlippersΔE00 2.157 · #9c2e33
- Sizzling BaconΔE00 2.177 · #8e3537
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.