Chocolate Kiss
#3c1421
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
#3c1421
RGB
60, 20, 33
OKLCh
25.9% 0.065 2.4°
CIELAB (D50)
13.2, 21.2, 1.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.6; 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 17.9 and 21.1 and 31.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.31:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c1421
protanopia
#1c1c21 · ΔE00 17.9
deuteranopia
#252520 · ΔE00 21.1
tritanopia
#2d2d00 · ΔE00 31.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack-Hearted at ΔE00 1.213: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Black-HeartedΔE00 1.213 · #3e1825
- Bruised PlumΔE00 2.346 · #3b1921
- What We Do in the ShadowsΔE00 2.681 · #441122
- Dark MahoganyΔE00 3.736 · #482029
- BlackberryΔE00 4.392 · #43182f
- Piermont Stone RedΔE00 4.46 · #43232c
- CastroΔE00 4.478 · #44232f
- Blaze It Dark MagentaΔE00 4.635 · #420420
- Rustic RedΔE00 4.773 · #3a181a
- Vino TintoΔE00 4.869 · #4c1c24
- Ilvaite BlackΔE00 4.971 · #330011
- Warm Balaclavas Are ForeverΔE00 5.069 · #3b1f23
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.