Very Berry
#bb3381
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb3381
RGB
187, 51, 129
OKLCh
55.0% 0.187 349.8°
CIELAB (D50)
45.3, 59.1, -11.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 75.6; on black, Lc -26.1. 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 27.9 and 25.6 and 62.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.90:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb3381
protanopia
#525282 · ΔE00 27.9
deuteranopia
#72727e · ΔE00 25.6
tritanopia
#8c8c00 · ΔE00 62.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMedium Red Violet at ΔE00 0.951: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Medium Red VioletΔE00 0.951 · #bb3385
- Lust PriestessΔE00 1.649 · #bb3388
- Fuchsia RedΔE00 2.032 · #b73879
- Rrosy-Fingered DawnΔE00 2.369 · #c11c84
- Pink ShadowΔE00 2.479 · #bb3377
- Bramble JamΔE00 2.651 · #c71581
- Treasured LoveΔE00 2.658 · #bb2277
- Medium Violet RedΔE00 2.712 · #c71585
- FandangoΔE00 2.833 · #b53389
- Purple Heart KiwiΔE00 2.996 · #cc2288
- Orchid EcstasyΔE00 2.996 · #bb4488
- Loulou’s PurpleΔE00 3.111 · #bb2288
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.