Mulberry
#920a4e
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#920a4e
RGB
146, 10, 78
OKLCh
43.2% 0.170 359.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.0, 54.4, -0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 88.3; on black, Lc -13.9. 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 27.2 and 30.3 and 53.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#920a4e
protanopia
#35354f · ΔE00 27.2
deuteranopia
#53534b · ΔE00 30.3
tritanopia
#6a6a00 · ΔE00 53.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReddish Purple at ΔE00 1.094: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Reddish PurpleΔE00 1.094 · #910951
- Wine GrapeΔE00 1.209 · #941751
- Vertigo CherryΔE00 1.838 · #990055
- Strong CeriseΔE00 2.171 · #960056
- Aristocratic VelvetΔE00 2.464 · #980b4a
- Akuma’s FuryΔE00 2.554 · #871646
- Midnight MerlotΔE00 2.583 · #880044
- BerryΔE00 2.642 · #990f4b
- Manually Pressed GrapesΔE00 2.707 · #881144
- Obscure OrchidΔE00 2.731 · #9d0759
- Celestial PinkΔE00 2.985 · #9c004a
- Rose GarnetΔE00 3.128 · #960145
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.