Castro
#44232f
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
#44232f
RGB
68, 35, 47
OKLCh
30.4% 0.053 357.5°
CIELAB (D50)
18.6, 17.4, -0.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 100.2; 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 15.6 and 17.1 and 31.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.75:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.53:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.75:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#44232f
protanopia
#28282f · ΔE00 15.6
deuteranopia
#2f2f2e · ΔE00 17.1
tritanopia
#363600 · ΔE00 31.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPiermont Stone Red at ΔE00 1.307: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Piermont Stone RedΔE00 1.307 · #43232c
- Wine TastingΔE00 2.185 · #492a34
- Soft RedΔE00 2.318 · #412533
- Nisemurasaki PurpleΔE00 2.654 · #43242a
- Jasmin BeautyΔE00 2.879 · #3c202f
- Dark MahoganyΔE00 3.19 · #482029
- Black-HeartedΔE00 3.295 · #3e1825
- ToledoΔE00 3.337 · #3e2631
- Ripe EggplantΔE00 3.434 · #492d35
- TemptressΔE00 3.645 · #3c2126
- Bruised PlumΔE00 3.76 · #3b1921
- Japanese WineberryΔE00 3.946 · #522c35
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.