Spicy Purple
#b9396e
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b9396e
RGB
185, 57, 110
OKLCh
54.6% 0.170 359.1°
CIELAB (D50)
45.2, 54.9, -0.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 77% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.0; on black, Lc -25.7. 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 27.4 and 30.2 and 57.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.42:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.87:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.42:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b9396e
protanopia
#55556f · ΔE00 27.4
deuteranopia
#73736b · ΔE00 30.2
tritanopia
#8b8b00 · ΔE00 57.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFiery Fuchsia at ΔE00 0.605: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fiery FuchsiaΔE00 0.605 · #b7386e
- HibiscusΔE00 1.722 · #b6316c
- Raspberry RoseΔE00 2.026 · #b3436c
- Cactus FlowerΔE00 2.097 · #af416b
- Lilac RoseΔE00 2.226 · #bd4275
- IrresistibleΔE00 2.23 · #b3446c
- Valentine’s KissΔE00 2.372 · #b63364
- ValentinoΔE00 2.418 · #b64476
- Mauve MystiqueΔE00 2.554 · #bb4477
- Pink ShadowΔE00 2.766 · #bb3377
- Rich MaroonΔE00 2.903 · #b0306a
- Medium RubyΔE00 2.909 · #aa4069
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.