Raspberry
#b00149
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b00149
RGB
176, 1, 73
OKLCh
48.5% 0.194 8.4°
CIELAB (D50)
38.0, 62.7, 12.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 82.2; on black, Lc -19.7. 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 29.3 and 39.5 and 55.0 — 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
#b00149
protanopia
#3f3f4a · ΔE00 29.3
deuteranopia
#646443 · ΔE00 39.5
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 55.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurplish Red at ΔE00 0.506: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Purplish RedΔE00 0.506 · #b0054b
- Pickled BeetsΔE00 1.436 · #aa0044
- CeriseΔE00 1.487 · #ad134e
- Bloody PeriphyllaΔE00 1.716 · #aa1144
- Grated BeetΔE00 1.815 · #a60e46
- She PoutsΔE00 1.93 · #ab214b
- Rondo of BloodΔE00 2.079 · #a60044
- Screamer PinkΔE00 2.32 · #ab0040
- French WineΔE00 2.935 · #ac1e44
- Minted Blueberry LemonadeΔE00 3.045 · #b32651
- Primal RedΔE00 3.081 · #a92b4f
- Fancy Red WineΔE00 3.163 · #b40441
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.