Pink Horror
#90305d
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#90305d
RGB
144, 48, 93
OKLCh
46.3% 0.137 354.8°
CIELAB (D50)
36.0, 44.1, -4.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.6; on black, Lc -16.5. 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 24.0 and 24.4 and 51.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.77:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#90305d
protanopia
#44445d · ΔE00 24.0
deuteranopia
#5a5a5b · ΔE00 24.4
tritanopia
#6d6d00 · ΔE00 51.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForward Fuchsia at ΔE00 1.664: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Forward FuchsiaΔE00 1.664 · #92345b
- Magenta ManicureΔE00 2.254 · #983166
- Scarlet FlameΔE00 2.348 · #993366
- BoysenberryΔE00 2.675 · #873260
- Thorne WinesΔE00 2.705 · #9c2d5d
- Rosebud CherryΔE00 2.731 · #8a2d52
- Dark RaspberryΔE00 2.815 · #872657
- Aurora MagentaΔE00 2.993 · #963b60
- Berry PatchΔE00 3.093 · #84395d
- Quinacridone MagentaΔE00 3.146 · #8e3a59
- Berry CuriousΔE00 3.151 · #9b1c5d
- Powder RedΔE00 3.163 · #95396a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.