Berry
#990f4b
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#990f4b
RGB
153, 15, 75
OKLCh
44.6% 0.171 3.0°
CIELAB (D50)
33.7, 55.2, 4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 86.9; on black, Lc -15.2. 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 27.6 and 33.6 and 53.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#990f4b
protanopia
#38384c · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#585847 · ΔE00 33.6
tritanopia
#6f6f00 · ΔE00 53.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAristocratic Velvet at ΔE00 0.38: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Aristocratic VelvetΔE00 0.38 · #980b4a
- Celestial PinkΔE00 0.811 · #9c004a
- Purple RedΔE00 1.06 · #990147
- Rose GarnetΔE00 1.481 · #960145
- Hydrangea RedΔE00 1.668 · #9e194d
- Rum RicheΔE00 1.815 · #990044
- Cherry PlumΔE00 2.333 · #a10047
- Wine GrapeΔE00 2.344 · #941751
- MulberryΔE00 2.642 · #920a4e
- Violet RedΔE00 2.797 · #a50055
- Raspberry RomanticΔE00 3.144 · #972b51
- Cherries JubileeΔE00 3.289 · #a22452
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.