Cherry Berry
#9f4d65
A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#9f4d65
RGB
159, 77, 101
OKLCh
52.9% 0.112 3.1°
CIELAB (D50)
44.0, 36.6, 2.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.8; on black, Lc -24.0. 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 23.2 and 28.2 and 47.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.72:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#9f4d65
protanopia
#5b5b65 · ΔE00 23.2
deuteranopia
#6d6d63 · ΔE00 28.2
tritanopia
#7e7e00 · ΔE00 47.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBaby Berries at ΔE00 1.062: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Baby BerriesΔE00 1.062 · #9c4a62
- Raspberry PatchΔE00 1.151 · #a34f66
- Glazed RaspberryΔE00 1.654 · #a44b62
- CadillacΔE00 1.898 · #984961
- Mulberry MixΔE00 2.375 · #9f556c
- Vive L’amourΔE00 2.377 · #995468
- Ancient FuchsiaΔE00 2.466 · #a44769
- Mission WildflowerΔE00 2.53 · #9e5566
- China RoseΔE00 2.657 · #a8516e
- Vin RougeΔE00 2.66 · #955264
- GlitteratiΔE00 2.789 · #944a63
- Velvet WineΔE00 2.852 · #9a435d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.