Spicy Berry
#cc3366
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#cc3366
RGB
204, 51, 102
OKLCh
57.0% 0.191 5.9°
CIELAB (D50)
47.8, 62.1, 8.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 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 73.0; on black, Lc -28.7. 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 29.3 and 37.8 and 58.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.23:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#cc3366
protanopia
#585867 · ΔE00 29.3
deuteranopia
#7c7c61 · ΔE00 37.8
tritanopia
#989800 · ΔE00 58.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaspberry Jam at ΔE00 0.516: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Raspberry JamΔE00 0.516 · #ca3767
- Raspberry SorbetΔE00 1.879 · #d2386c
- Self-LoveΔE00 2.097 · #d22b6d
- Dark PinkΔE00 2.116 · #cb416b
- Sensitive ScorpionΔE00 2.278 · #cc2266
- Dogwood RoseΔE00 2.397 · #d71868
- Qermez RedΔE00 2.633 · #cf3c71
- Beet WaveΔE00 2.814 · #d4265d
- Love PotionΔE00 2.86 · #ce145e
- Maroon LightΔE00 2.893 · #bf3160
- Purple YearningΔE00 2.947 · #dd1166
- Qing Dynasty FireΔE00 2.983 · #dd2266
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.