Petal of a Dying Rose
#9f0630
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9f0630
RGB
159, 6, 48
OKLCh
44.8% 0.176 16.7°
CIELAB (D50)
34.0, 56.9, 23.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 98% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 86.3; on black, Lc -15.8. 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 30.2 and 39.7 and 48.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.54:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9f0630
protanopia
#393931 · ΔE00 30.2
deuteranopia
#5a5a29 · ΔE00 39.7
tritanopia
#737300 · ΔE00 48.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFrench Winery at ΔE00 1.596: 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 1.596 · #991133
- Vivid BurgundyΔE00 1.743 · #9f1d35
- Bacchic BurgundyΔE00 2.03 · #95122c
- Hot LavaΔE00 2.1 · #aa0033
- LifelineΔE00 2.46 · #990033
- ChernobogΔE00 2.603 · #ac0132
- Melancholic MacawΔE00 2.675 · #aa1133
- RougeΔE00 2.933 · #ab1239
- Valentine RedΔE00 3.018 · #9b233b
- Crimson GarlandΔE00 3.113 · #982531
- Cut RubyΔE00 3.132 · #a01c2d
- Romeo O RomeoΔE00 3.21 · #a4233c
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.