Vertigo Cherry
#990055
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#990055
RGB
153, 0, 85
OKLCh
44.4% 0.181 357.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.2, 57.9, -2.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 86.8; on black, Lc -15.3. 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 28.0 and 28.9 and 56.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.45:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.45:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#990055
protanopia
#353556 · ΔE00 28.0
deuteranopia
#565652 · ΔE00 28.9
tritanopia
#6e6e00 · ΔE00 56.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStrong Cerise at ΔE00 0.939: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Strong CeriseΔE00 0.939 · #960056
- Obscure OrchidΔE00 1.09 · #9d0759
- Reddish PurpleΔE00 1.501 · #910951
- Deep MagentaΔE00 1.724 · #a0025c
- MulberryΔE00 1.838 · #920a4e
- Wine GrapeΔE00 1.935 · #941751
- Berry CuriousΔE00 2.35 · #9b1c5d
- Raspberry MagentaΔE00 2.729 · #9a1a60
- Banafsaji PurpleΔE00 2.8 · #a50b5e
- Violet RedΔE00 2.979 · #a50055
- Morbid PrincessΔE00 3.348 · #9e0e64
- Aristocratic VelvetΔE00 3.483 · #980b4a
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.