Chubby Kiss

#b43548

A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#b43548

RGB

180, 53, 72

OKLCh

52.3% 0.163 16.4°

CIELAB (D50)

42.9, 52.5, 20.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.5; on black, Lc -23.2. 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 29.5 and 37.8 and 49.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

5.93:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.54:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at5.93:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#b43548

protanopia

#515149 · ΔE00 29.5

deuteranopia

#6f6f43 · ΔE00 37.8

tritanopia

#878700 · ΔE00 49.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRomantic Embers at ΔE00 1.878: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.