Cry of a Rose
#b23c5d
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b23c5d
RGB
178, 60, 93
OKLCh
53.3% 0.154 7.0°
CIELAB (D50)
44.0, 50.4, 8.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 77.5; on black, Lc -24.2. 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 26.3 and 33.9 and 52.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.68:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.70:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.68:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b23c5d
protanopia
#55555e · ΔE00 26.3
deuteranopia
#707059 · ΔE00 33.9
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 52.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHeart’s Desire at ΔE00 1.559: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Heart’s DesireΔE00 1.559 · #ac3e5f
- HotΔE00 2.01 · #ac4362
- Speaking of the DevilΔE00 2.012 · #a8415b
- SangriaΔE00 2.448 · #b14566
- Maroon LightΔE00 2.582 · #bf3160
- Rose Laffy TaffyΔE00 2.918 · #a6465b
- Mauve ItΔE00 2.941 · #bb4466
- GranitaΔE00 3.001 · #b62758
- Valentine’s KissΔE00 3.014 · #b63364
- Bing Cherry PieΔE00 3.064 · #af4967
- Gala PinkΔE00 3.078 · #b04b63
- Raspberry WineΔE00 3.089 · #b63753
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.