Murderous Magenta
#b3205f
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b3205f
RGB
179, 32, 95
OKLCh
51.0% 0.185 1.3°
CIELAB (D50)
40.8, 59.9, 2.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 90% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.2; on black, Lc -21.7. 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 28.8 and 33.7 and 57.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.29:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b3205f
protanopia
#474760 · ΔE00 28.8
deuteranopia
#69695b · ΔE00 33.7
tritanopia
#848400 · ΔE00 57.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlood Thorn at ΔE00 1.919: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blood ThornΔE00 1.919 · #b03060
- Chaotic RosesΔE00 1.955 · #bb2266
- Spiced PurpleΔE00 2.088 · #bb1166
- VivaciousΔE00 2.369 · #a7295f
- Jam JarΔE00 2.495 · #ac335e
- Aztec WarriorΔE00 2.559 · #bb0066
- Rhine River RoseΔE00 2.663 · #ab3560
- Valentine’s KissΔE00 2.83 · #b63364
- Plum PerfectΔE00 2.858 · #aa1155
- Rich MaroonΔE00 2.954 · #b0306a
- GranitaΔE00 3.114 · #b62758
- Tree PeonyΔE00 3.198 · #a4345d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.