Black Cherry
#2c1620
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2c1620
RGB
44, 22, 32
OKLCh
23.5% 0.039 351.8°
CIELAB (D50)
10.7, 12.7, -2.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 103.7; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 12.2 and 13.0 and 26.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.24:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2c1620
protanopia
#191920 · ΔE00 12.2
deuteranopia
#1e1e1f · ΔE00 13.0
tritanopia
#232300 · ΔE00 26.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAntique Burgundy at ΔE00 4.065: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Antique BurgundyΔE00 4.065 · #352126
- Jasmin BeautyΔE00 4.551 · #3c202f
- InsideΔE00 4.9 · #221122
- TemptressΔE00 5.06 · #3c2126
- BelladonnaΔE00 5.113 · #220011
- ToledoΔE00 5.155 · #3e2631
- Sitter RedΔE00 5.18 · #3c2233
- Warm Balaclavas Are ForeverΔE00 5.26 · #3b1f23
- Mangosteen VioletΔE00 5.354 · #3a2732
- Bruised PlumΔE00 5.377 · #3b1921
- Delighted ChimpΔE00 5.437 · #2e212d
- Meški BlackΔE00 5.44 · #1f0b1e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.