Rural Red
#bb1144
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb1144
RGB
187, 17, 68
OKLCh
51.0% 0.196 13.4°
CIELAB (D50)
40.9, 63.5, 20.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 79.7; on black, Lc -22.1. 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 28.8 and 41.9 and 54.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.28:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb1144
protanopia
#464645 · ΔE00 28.8
deuteranopia
#6c6c3d · ΔE00 41.9
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 54.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Paracentrotus at ΔE00 0.956: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Red ParacentrotusΔE00 0.956 · #bb0044
- CarmoisineΔE00 1.52 · #b31c45
- Red Tuna FruitΔE00 1.603 · #b41b40
- Hot HibiscusΔE00 1.765 · #bb2244
- Red JalapeñoΔE00 1.792 · #c01141
- Fancy Red WineΔE00 1.89 · #b40441
- M. BisonΔE00 2.061 · #b4023d
- Con BrioΔE00 2.117 · #b12845
- CherryadeΔE00 2.144 · #b22743
- Traditional RoseΔE00 2.264 · #be013c
- Ahmar RedΔE00 2.522 · #c22147
- GrenadeΔE00 2.589 · #c32149
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.