Yearning Desire
#ca135e
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#ca135e
RGB
202, 19, 94
OKLCh
54.5% 0.211 5.6°
CIELAB (D50)
44.6, 68.2, 9.4
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 75.7; on black, Lc -26.0. 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 31.0 and 39.9 and 59.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.58:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.77:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.58:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#ca135e
protanopia
#4c4c5f · ΔE00 31.0
deuteranopia
#757559 · ΔE00 39.9
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 59.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLove Potion at ΔE00 1.025: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Love PotionΔE00 1.025 · #ce145e
- Bright RoseΔE00 1.359 · #c51959
- RowanΔE00 1.509 · #cb0162
- Secret AffairΔE00 1.835 · #c41661
- Sensitive ScorpionΔE00 1.921 · #cc2266
- Xīpe Totēc RedΔE00 1.982 · #cc1166
- Red-Letter DayΔE00 2.292 · #cc0055
- Vampiric BloodlustΔE00 2.377 · #cc0066
- Maroon LightΔE00 2.513 · #bf3160
- Love JuiceΔE00 2.665 · #cc1155
- Rubine RedΔE00 2.767 · #d10056
- Scarlet Cattleya OrchidΔE00 2.836 · #c70752
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.