Black-Hearted
#3e1825
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
#3e1825
RGB
62, 24, 37
OKLCh
27.1% 0.062 0.5°
CIELAB (D50)
14.6, 20.2, 0.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.1; 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 17.3 and 19.9 and 31.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.42:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.36:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.42:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e1825
protanopia
#1f1f25 · ΔE00 17.3
deuteranopia
#272724 · ΔE00 19.9
tritanopia
#2f2f00 · ΔE00 31.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Kiss 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.
- Chocolate KissΔE00 1.213 · #3c1421
- Bruised PlumΔE00 2.141 · #3b1921
- Dark MahoganyΔE00 3.171 · #482029
- CastroΔE00 3.295 · #44232f
- What We Do in the ShadowsΔE00 3.308 · #441122
- Piermont Stone RedΔE00 3.424 · #43232c
- BlackberryΔE00 3.796 · #43182f
- Nisemurasaki PurpleΔE00 4.256 · #43242a
- Jasmin BeautyΔE00 4.384 · #3c202f
- Warm Balaclavas Are ForeverΔE00 4.57 · #3b1f23
- TemptressΔE00 4.663 · #3c2126
- Vino TintoΔE00 4.949 · #4c1c24
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.