Lifeline
#990033
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#990033
RGB
153, 0, 51
OKLCh
43.5% 0.174 13.8°
CIELAB (D50)
32.5, 56.2, 18.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 87.5; on black, Lc -14.6. 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 27.6 and 38.8 and 48.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.40:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#990033
protanopia
#353534 · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#56562d · ΔE00 38.8
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 48.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Winery at ΔE00 1.333: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- French WineryΔE00 1.333 · #991133
- CranberryΔE00 1.923 · #9e003a
- Petal of a Dying RoseΔE00 2.46 · #9f0630
- Valentine RedΔE00 3.066 · #9b233b
- Bacchic BurgundyΔE00 3.076 · #95122c
- Vivid BurgundyΔE00 3.405 · #9f1d35
- Velvet CakeΔE00 3.523 · #9d253d
- Big Dip O’rubyΔE00 3.952 · #9c2542
- True CrimsonΔE00 3.972 · #a22042
- Hot LavaΔE00 4.035 · #aa0033
- Screamer PinkΔE00 4.073 · #ab0040
- Thrill RideΔE00 4.091 · #8c283b
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.