Botticelli
#b70272
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b70272
RGB
183, 2, 114
OKLCh
51.2% 0.211 352.5°
CIELAB (D50)
40.6, 66.6, -9.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.5; on black, Lc -22.3. 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 29.9 and 26.9 and 63.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.27:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b70272
protanopia
#424273 · ΔE00 29.9
deuteranopia
#68686f · ΔE00 26.9
tritanopia
#858500 · ΔE00 63.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEye Popping Cherry at ΔE00 1.084: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Eye Popping CherryΔE00 1.084 · #bb0077
- Infectious LoveΔE00 1.421 · #bb1177
- King’s Plum PieΔE00 2.221 · #b3107a
- Purple AnxietyΔE00 2.303 · #c20078
- Treasured LoveΔE00 2.585 · #bb2277
- Plum ParadiseΔE00 2.91 · #aa1166
- Velvet CupcakeΔE00 3.052 · #aa0066
- Carroburg CrimsonΔE00 3.069 · #a82a70
- Plastic LipsΔE00 3.363 · #aa2266
- Fabric of LoveΔE00 3.445 · #aa1177
- Aztec WarriorΔE00 3.486 · #bb0066
- Festival FuchsiaΔE00 3.669 · #aa2f78
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.