Whisky Cola
#772233
A pink that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#772233
RGB
119, 34, 51
OKLCh
39.1% 0.118 12.8°
CIELAB (D50)
28.0, 38.3, 11.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 76% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.8; on black, Lc -9.7. 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 24.6 and 30.9 and 40.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.19:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.06:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.19:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#772233
protanopia
#343434 · ΔE00 24.6
deuteranopia
#484830 · ΔE00 30.9
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 40.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAmaranth Blossom at ΔE00 1.695: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Amaranth BlossomΔE00 1.695 · #7b2331
- Merlot FieldsΔE00 1.787 · #712735
- SuōΔE00 1.795 · #7e2639
- Squid HatΔE00 2.247 · #6e2233
- Brown MagentaΔE00 2.259 · #7b2039
- Jazzy RedΔE00 2.391 · #771c2b
- PaprikaΔE00 2.736 · #7c2d37
- BicycletteΔE00 2.74 · #802c3a
- Mesa RidgeΔE00 2.815 · #772f39
- Velvet OutbreakΔE00 2.884 · #6b1b2a
- Anthracite RedΔE00 2.947 · #73293b
- Rocking ChairΔE00 3 · #721f37
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.