Drops of God
#571e2f
A pink that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#571e2f
RGB
87, 30, 47
OKLCh
32.7% 0.086 4.6°
CIELAB (D50)
20.9, 28.1, 3.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.5; 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 20.9 and 25.7 and 36.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.87:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.63:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.87:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#571e2f
protanopia
#29292f · ΔE00 20.9
deuteranopia
#36362d · ΔE00 25.7
tritanopia
#414100 · ΔE00 36.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLargest Black Slug at ΔE00 0.634: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Largest Black SlugΔE00 0.634 · #551f2f
- CarambarΔE00 1.761 · #552233
- Wine CountryΔE00 2.053 · #602234
- ZinfandelΔE00 2.532 · #5a2538
- Brown ChocolateΔE00 2.64 · #5f1933
- Soul AnchorΔE00 3.829 · #5c1c39
- Vino TintoΔE00 3.84 · #4c1c24
- Black RoseΔE00 3.866 · #532934
- SirenΔE00 4.338 · #69293b
- Windsor WineΔE00 4.352 · #5f2e3d
- Dark MahoganyΔE00 4.392 · #482029
- What We Do in the ShadowsΔE00 4.582 · #441122
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.