Velvet Magic
#bb1155
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb1155
RGB
187, 17, 85
OKLCh
51.4% 0.199 6.3°
CIELAB (D50)
41.2, 64.2, 9.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 79.4; on black, Lc -22.4. 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 29.9 and 38.9 and 57.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.32:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb1155
protanopia
#464656 · ΔE00 29.9
deuteranopia
#6c6c50 · ΔE00 38.9
tritanopia
#888800 · ΔE00 57.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPerfect Pout at ΔE00 1.275: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Perfect PoutΔE00 1.275 · #b72356
- Raven’s BanquetΔE00 1.636 · #bb2255
- GranitaΔE00 1.673 · #b62758
- Minted Blueberry LemonadeΔE00 2.267 · #b32651
- Bright RoseΔE00 2.478 · #c51959
- CeriseΔE00 2.848 · #ad134e
- Purplish RedΔE00 2.87 · #b0054b
- Secret AffairΔE00 2.923 · #c41661
- Scarlet Cattleya OrchidΔE00 3.047 · #c70752
- Pictorial CarmineΔE00 3.171 · #c30b4e
- RaspberryΔE00 3.193 · #b00149
- Yearning DesireΔE00 3.302 · #ca135e
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.