Flirt
#7a2e4d
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7a2e4d
RGB
122, 46, 77
OKLCh
41.9% 0.111 357.6°
CIELAB (D50)
31.2, 36.1, -1.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 65% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.2; on black, Lc -12.1. 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 22.2 and 25.1 and 45.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.03:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.33:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.03:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7a2e4d
protanopia
#3d3d4d · ΔE00 22.2
deuteranopia
#4e4e4b · ΔE00 25.1
tritanopia
#5d5d00 · ΔE00 45.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRed Plum at ΔE00 1.501: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Red PlumΔE00 1.501 · #7c2949
- Rich Red VioletΔE00 1.936 · #7c3651
- BeaujolaisΔE00 2.025 · #80304c
- Palace RedΔE00 2.099 · #752745
- Ember RedΔE00 2.415 · #792445
- Caviar CoutureΔE00 2.727 · #772244
- Possessed PlumΔE00 2.804 · #773355
- Raspberry RadianceΔE00 3.041 · #882d50
- Cherry Juice RedΔE00 3.103 · #6c2c45
- Pico EggplantΔE00 3.226 · #7e2553
- Alfonso OliveΔE00 3.254 · #80365a
- Rosebud CherryΔE00 3.364 · #8a2d52
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.