Velvet
#750851
A pink that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#750851
RGB
117, 8, 81
OKLCh
37.7% 0.153 346.9°
CIELAB (D50)
25.7, 47.5, -12.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.7; on black, Lc -8.8. 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 23.4 and 23.0 and 52.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#750851
protanopia
#292951 · ΔE00 23.4
deuteranopia
#42424f · ΔE00 23.0
tritanopia
#545400 · ΔE00 52.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLucky Wine at ΔE00 1.507: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lucky WineΔE00 1.507 · #77074d
- Rich PurpleΔE00 2.84 · #720058
- French PlumΔE00 3.389 · #811453
- Xereus PurpleΔE00 3.642 · #7d0061
- SmoochΔE00 3.772 · #7e2056
- Pansy PurpleΔE00 3.896 · #78184a
- Dawn of the FairiesΔE00 3.966 · #770044
- Dried Flower PurpleΔE00 4.202 · #752653
- Cardinal PinkΔE00 4.58 · #8c055e
- Forest Fruit RedΔE00 4.612 · #6e2759
- GrapestΔE00 4.715 · #880066
- Bane of RoyaltyΔE00 4.769 · #871466
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.