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#650021
A pink that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#650021
RGB
101, 0, 33
OKLCh
32.3% 0.129 12.3°
CIELAB (D50)
20.0, 41.8, 12.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.8; 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 24.7 and 32.0 and 39.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.58:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#650021
protanopia
#202022 · ΔE00 24.7
deuteranopia
#37371d · ΔE00 32.0
tritanopia
#484800 · ΔE00 39.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpring Lobster at ΔE00 1.725: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spring LobsterΔE00 1.725 · #640125
- Baal Red WashΔE00 1.736 · #610023
- Plum CheeseΔE00 2.043 · #670728
- Dark HumourΔE00 2.393 · #661122
- Forbidden PassionΔE00 2.807 · #661020
- BloedworstΔE00 3.238 · #560319
- Velvet OutbreakΔE00 3.651 · #6b1b2a
- PohutukawaΔE00 4.02 · #651c26
- ClaretΔE00 4.188 · #680018
- Evil ForcesΔE00 4.375 · #770022
- BordeauxΔE00 4.433 · #7b002c
- Chocolate CosmosΔE00 4.482 · #58111a
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.