Velvet Wine
#9a435d
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9a435d
RGB
154, 67, 93
OKLCh
50.4% 0.119 3.6°
CIELAB (D50)
41.0, 39.0, 3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.8; on black, Lc -21.0. 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 23.7 and 29.1 and 47.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.33:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9a435d
protanopia
#53535d · ΔE00 23.7
deuteranopia
#67675b · ΔE00 29.1
tritanopia
#787800 · ΔE00 47.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaspberry Pudding at ΔE00 1.323: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Raspberry PuddingΔE00 1.323 · #94435a
- CadillacΔE00 1.632 · #984961
- GooseberryΔE00 1.797 · #a23f5d
- Baby BerriesΔE00 1.853 · #9c4a62
- Ancient MagentaΔE00 2.161 · #953d55
- Haitian FlowerΔE00 2.503 · #97495a
- Boysenberry PinkΔE00 2.505 · #a1395d
- GlitteratiΔE00 2.639 · #944a63
- Algae RedΔE00 2.653 · #983d53
- Umemurasaki PurpleΔE00 2.693 · #8f4155
- Cherry BerryΔE00 2.852 · #9f4d65
- Glazed RaspberryΔE00 3.172 · #a44b62
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.