Soul Anchor
#5c1c39
A pink that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#5c1c39
RGB
92, 28, 57
OKLCh
33.7% 0.099 355.7°
CIELAB (D50)
21.8, 31.8, -2.4
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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.7; 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 20.8 and 22.7 and 40.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.50:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.68:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.50:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5c1c39
protanopia
#292939 · ΔE00 20.8
deuteranopia
#383837 · ΔE00 22.7
tritanopia
#454500 · ΔE00 40.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTulip Poplar Purple at ΔE00 2.58: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Tulip Poplar PurpleΔE00 2.58 · #531938
- Brown ChocolateΔE00 2.598 · #5f1933
- Quills of TericoΔE00 2.646 · #612741
- ZinfandelΔE00 2.961 · #5a2538
- PompadourΔE00 3.289 · #6a1f44
- Plum CaspiaΔE00 3.438 · #612246
- CarambarΔE00 3.497 · #552233
- Witch SoupΔE00 3.608 · #692746
- Mulberry WoodΔE00 3.695 · #5c0536
- Drops of GodΔE00 3.829 · #571e2f
- Wine CountryΔE00 3.978 · #602234
- Largest Black SlugΔE00 3.987 · #551f2f
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.