Merlot Magic
#b64055
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b64055
RGB
182, 64, 85
OKLCh
54.2% 0.153 13.2°
CIELAB (D50)
45.1, 49.6, 14.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.3; on black, Lc -25.4. 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 27.0 and 35.7 and 49.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.45:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.85:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.45:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b64055
protanopia
#585856 · ΔE00 27.0
deuteranopia
#747451 · ΔE00 35.7
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 49.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCherry Wine at ΔE00 1.34: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cherry WineΔE00 1.34 · #b04556
- Romantic EmbersΔE00 1.639 · #b23e4f
- Raspberry WineΔE00 1.784 · #b63753
- Thai SpiceΔE00 1.884 · #bb4455
- Punky PinkΔE00 1.914 · #b2485b
- Dark RoseΔE00 2.138 · #b5485d
- Umbria RedΔE00 2.287 · #b54753
- Saffron DesiresΔE00 2.78 · #c24359
- Pink QuinceΔE00 2.948 · #ab485b
- Cherry on TopΔE00 2.957 · #ac495c
- Holly BerryΔE00 2.985 · #b44e5d
- Dingy DungeonΔE00 3.088 · #c53151
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.