Bleeding Heart
#c02e4c
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c02e4c
RGB
192, 46, 76
OKLCh
53.8% 0.181 14.5°
CIELAB (D50)
44.4, 58.7, 19.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.7; on black, Lc -25.0. 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 29.5 and 40.2 and 52.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.74:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c02e4c
protanopia
#52524d · ΔE00 29.5
deuteranopia
#747446 · ΔE00 40.2
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 52.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDry Rose at ΔE00 0.497: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Dry RoseΔE00 0.497 · #c22f4d
- Zǎo Hóng MaroonΔE00 1.122 · #c1264c
- Maroon FlushΔE00 1.208 · #c32249
- Possessed RedΔE00 1.212 · #c2264d
- GrenadeΔE00 1.293 · #c32149
- Bright MaroonΔE00 1.334 · #c32148
- Ahmar RedΔE00 1.44 · #c22147
- Dingy DungeonΔE00 1.478 · #c53151
- French RaspberryΔE00 2.148 · #c72c48
- Rose RedΔE00 2.219 · #c92351
- JazzyΔE00 2.261 · #c31e4e
- Hot HibiscusΔE00 2.294 · #bb2244
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.