Vampirella
#9b2848
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9b2848
RGB
155, 40, 72
OKLCh
46.7% 0.151 8.9°
CIELAB (D50)
36.4, 49.2, 10.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.0; on black, Lc -17.0. 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 26.0 and 34.2 and 49.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.79:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.52:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9b2848
protanopia
#434349 · ΔE00 26.0
deuteranopia
#5e5e44 · ΔE00 34.2
tritanopia
#737300 · ΔE00 49.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerry Rossi at ΔE00 1.126: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Berry RossiΔE00 1.126 · #992244
- Big Dip O’rubyΔE00 1.843 · #9c2542
- Crimson StrawberryΔE00 1.947 · #9f2d47
- Crimson ShadowsΔE00 2.029 · #9a2b43
- Scarlet AppleΔE00 2.124 · #922e4a
- True CrimsonΔE00 2.473 · #a22042
- Warrior QueenΔE00 2.55 · #a32d48
- Grated BeetΔE00 2.736 · #a60e46
- Rumba RedΔE00 2.736 · #902a40
- Primal RedΔE00 3.007 · #a92b4f
- She PoutsΔE00 3.024 · #ab214b
- Cherries JubileeΔE00 3.04 · #a22452
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.