Hibiscus
#b6316c
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b6316c
RGB
182, 49, 108
OKLCh
53.3% 0.176 358.0°
CIELAB (D50)
43.5, 56.7, -1.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.7; on black, Lc -24.1. 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 29.6 and 58.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.76:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.64:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.76:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b6316c
protanopia
#50506d · ΔE00 27.9
deuteranopia
#6f6f69 · ΔE00 29.6
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 58.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFiery Fuchsia at ΔE00 1.231: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Fiery FuchsiaΔE00 1.231 · #b7386e
- Rich MaroonΔE00 1.334 · #b0306a
- Spicy PurpleΔE00 1.722 · #b9396e
- Chaotic RosesΔE00 2.052 · #bb2266
- Valentine’s KissΔE00 2.434 · #b63364
- Pink ShadowΔE00 2.491 · #bb3377
- Cactus FlowerΔE00 2.8 · #af416b
- Blood ThornΔE00 2.901 · #b03060
- Spiced PurpleΔE00 2.905 · #bb1166
- Medium RubyΔE00 2.998 · #aa4069
- Fuchsia RedΔE00 3.057 · #b73879
- Valentine’s DayΔE00 3.182 · #a63864
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.