Pimm’s
#c3585c
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c3585c
RGB
195, 88, 92
OKLCh
59.5% 0.137 19.9°
CIELAB (D50)
51.6, 44.0, 19.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.3; on black, Lc -32.4. 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 29.2 and 34.4 and 46.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.31:1 — large text only
Black text
4.87:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.87:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#bf5559 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c3585c
protanopia
#6b6b5d · ΔE00 29.2
deuteranopia
#838358 · ΔE00 34.4
tritanopia
#999900 · ΔE00 46.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChrysanthemum at ΔE00 1.065: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ChrysanthemumΔE00 1.065 · #c35458
- Whipped StrawberryΔE00 1.308 · #c9565a
- Super HeroΔE00 1.564 · #ca535b
- Fuzzy Wuzzy BrownΔE00 1.99 · #c45655
- MandyΔE00 2.074 · #cd525b
- Basashi RedΔE00 2.102 · #c15154
- Energy PeakΔE00 2.188 · #bb5f60
- Her VelourΔE00 2.343 · #bb5f62
- Hibiscus FlowerΔE00 2.534 · #bc555e
- PinkadelicΔE00 2.663 · #cb5c5b
- Iridescent RedΔE00 2.747 · #cc4e5c
- Wild ChestnutΔE00 2.835 · #bc5d58
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.