Cranberry
#9e003a
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9e003a
RGB
158, 0, 58
OKLCh
44.6% 0.178 11.5°
CIELAB (D50)
33.7, 57.7, 16.0
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 86.4; on black, Lc -15.7. 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 27.7 and 38.7 and 50.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.51:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9e003a
protanopia
#37373b · ΔE00 27.7
deuteranopia
#595934 · ΔE00 38.7
tritanopia
#727200 · ΔE00 50.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLifeline at ΔE00 1.923: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- LifelineΔE00 1.923 · #990033
- Screamer PinkΔE00 2.644 · #ab0040
- Rondo of BloodΔE00 2.645 · #a60044
- French WineryΔE00 2.732 · #991133
- True CrimsonΔE00 2.799 · #a22042
- Pickled BeetsΔE00 2.889 · #aa0044
- Big Dip O’rubyΔE00 2.975 · #9c2542
- Grated BeetΔE00 3.002 · #a60e46
- Berry RossiΔE00 3.076 · #992244
- Bloody PeriphyllaΔE00 3.089 · #aa1144
- Valentine RedΔE00 3.156 · #9b233b
- Velvet CakeΔE00 3.353 · #9d253d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.