Thorne Wines
#9c2d5d
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9c2d5d
RGB
156, 45, 93
OKLCh
48.0% 0.152 358.1°
CIELAB (D50)
37.7, 49.1, -1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.7; on black, Lc -18.2. 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 25.7 and 28.1 and 53.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.13:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.95:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.13:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9c2d5d
protanopia
#46465d · ΔE00 25.7
deuteranopia
#60605a · ΔE00 28.1
tritanopia
#757500 · ΔE00 53.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParlour Red at ΔE00 1.207: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Parlour RedΔE00 1.207 · #a12d5d
- Cardinal RedΔE00 1.674 · #9b365e
- Forward FuchsiaΔE00 2.148 · #92345b
- VivaciousΔE00 2.155 · #a7295f
- Royal FlushΔE00 2.166 · #a0365f
- Figue PulpΔE00 2.276 · #962c54
- BōtanΔE00 2.675 · #a2345c
- Scarlet FlameΔE00 2.688 · #993366
- Aurora MagentaΔE00 2.698 · #963b60
- Pink HorrorΔE00 2.705 · #90305d
- Berry CuriousΔE00 2.783 · #9b1c5d
- Tree PeonyΔE00 2.895 · #a4345d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.