HueComb

Macabre

#880033

A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#880033

RGB

136, 0, 51

OKLCh

40.0% 0.160 10.3°

CIELAB (D50)

28.6, 51.8, 12.8

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits 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 91.0; on black, Lc -11.4. 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 26.6 and 35.8 and 47.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

10.03:1 — passes AA

Black text

2.09:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at10.03:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#880033

protanopia

#2e2e34 · ΔE00 26.6

deuteranopia

#4c4c2e · ΔE00 35.8

tritanopia

#626200 · ΔE00 47.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMadrileño Maroon at ΔE00 1.935: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.