Royal Flush
#a0365f
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a0365f
RGB
160, 54, 95
OKLCh
49.7% 0.145 360.0°
CIELAB (D50)
39.8, 47.1, 0.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 81.8; on black, Lc -20.1. 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 25.3 and 29.1 and 52.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.19:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a0365f
protanopia
#4c4c5f · ΔE00 25.3
deuteranopia
#65655c · ΔE00 29.1
tritanopia
#797900 · ΔE00 52.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBōtan at ΔE00 1.058: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BōtanΔE00 1.058 · #a2345c
- Cardinal RedΔE00 1.073 · #9b365e
- Tree PeonyΔE00 1.191 · #a4345d
- Boysenberry PinkΔE00 1.309 · #a1395d
- Valentine’s DayΔE00 1.485 · #a63864
- Parlour RedΔE00 1.536 · #a12d5d
- Thorne WinesΔE00 2.166 · #9c2d5d
- VivaciousΔE00 2.169 · #a7295f
- Aurora MagentaΔE00 2.307 · #963b60
- Rhine River RoseΔE00 2.389 · #ab3560
- Jam JarΔE00 2.749 · #ac335e
- GooseberryΔE00 2.874 · #a23f5d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.