Amore
#ae2f48
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ae2f48
RGB
174, 47, 72
OKLCh
50.7% 0.163 14.0°
CIELAB (D50)
41.0, 52.7, 17.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.5; on black, Lc -21.4. 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 27.9 and 37.3 and 49.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.36:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.30:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.36:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ae2f48
protanopia
#4c4c49 · ΔE00 27.9
deuteranopia
#6a6a43 · ΔE00 37.3
tritanopia
#828200 · ΔE00 49.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCon Brio at ΔE00 1.036: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Con BrioΔE00 1.036 · #b12845
- Mad About YouΔE00 1.469 · #a9324b
- CherryadeΔE00 1.533 · #b22743
- Toasted TruffleΔE00 1.709 · #aa3344
- Roses Are RedΔE00 1.739 · #aa3646
- CarmoisineΔE00 2.135 · #b31c45
- Scarlet RibbonsΔE00 2.239 · #a4334a
- Chubby KissΔE00 2.311 · #b43548
- RadishΔE00 2.376 · #a42e41
- Red Tuna FruitΔE00 2.477 · #b41b40
- French WineΔE00 2.499 · #ac1e44
- ValentineΔE00 2.56 · #a53a4e
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.