Passionate Plum
#753a58
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#753a58
RGB
117, 58, 88
OKLCh
43.4% 0.091 349.8°
CIELAB (D50)
33.1, 29.3, -5.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.6; on black, Lc -13.6. 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 19.4 and 20.6 and 44.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.50:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#753a58
protanopia
#444458 · ΔE00 19.4
deuteranopia
#515157 · ΔE00 20.6
tritanopia
#5d5d00 · ΔE00 44.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMulled Plum at ΔE00 1.344: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mulled PlumΔE00 1.344 · #763d57
- Mystique VioletΔE00 1.563 · #723d5b
- Possessed PlumΔE00 1.998 · #773355
- Royal LinesΔE00 2.191 · #6e3d58
- Blasted Lands RocksΔE00 2.353 · #6c3550
- Ruby NightsΔE00 2.5 · #6f3b51
- PleasureΔE00 2.616 · #80385c
- Burlat RedΔE00 2.706 · #6e314f
- Purple DrabΔE00 2.719 · #754260
- Alfonso OliveΔE00 2.812 · #80365a
- Noble HonourΔE00 2.928 · #69354f
- Red JadeΔE00 3.176 · #783f54
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.