Warrior Queen
#a32d48
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#a32d48
RGB
163, 45, 72
OKLCh
48.6% 0.154 11.7°
CIELAB (D50)
38.6, 50.0, 13.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.9; on black, Lc -19.0. 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 35.4 and 48.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.94:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.94:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#a32d48
protanopia
#484849 · ΔE00 26.0
deuteranopia
#636344 · ΔE00 35.4
tritanopia
#7a7a00 · ΔE00 48.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrimson Strawberry at ΔE00 0.815: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Crimson StrawberryΔE00 0.815 · #9f2d47
- Scarlet RibbonsΔE00 1.128 · #a4334a
- Mad About YouΔE00 1.706 · #a9324b
- True CrimsonΔE00 1.924 · #a22042
- Crimson ShadowsΔE00 1.966 · #9a2b43
- Big Dip O’rubyΔE00 2.127 · #9c2542
- Primal RedΔE00 2.151 · #a92b4f
- She PoutsΔE00 2.224 · #ab214b
- French WineΔE00 2.23 · #ac1e44
- ValentineΔE00 2.484 · #a53a4e
- Bright LadyΔE00 2.541 · #9f3645
- VampirellaΔE00 2.55 · #9b2848
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.