Royal Flush

#a0365f

A pink that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.

Hex

#a0365f

RGB

160, 54, 95

OKLCh

49.7% 0.145 360.0°

CIELAB (D50)

39.8, 47.1, 0.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 6 other named colours sit 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 81.8; on black, Lc -20.1. 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 25.3 and 29.1 and 52.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

6.59:1 — passes AA

Black text

3.19:1 — large text only

White text is the better of the two at6.59:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#a0365f

protanopia

#4c4c5f · ΔE00 25.3

deuteranopia

#65655c · ΔE00 29.1

tritanopia

#797900 · ΔE00 52.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBōtan at ΔE00 1.058: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

  • BōtanΔE00 1.058 · #a2345c
  • Cardinal RedΔE00 1.073 · #9b365e
  • Tree PeonyΔE00 1.191 · #a4345d
  • Boysenberry PinkΔE00 1.309 · #a1395d
  • Valentine’s DayΔE00 1.485 · #a63864
  • Parlour RedΔE00 1.536 · #a12d5d
  • Thorne WinesΔE00 2.166 · #9c2d5d
  • VivaciousΔE00 2.169 · #a7295f
  • Aurora MagentaΔE00 2.307 · #963b60
  • Rhine River RoseΔE00 2.389 · #ab3560
  • Jam JarΔE00 2.749 · #ac335e
  • GooseberryΔE00 2.874 · #a23f5d

11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.