Roses Are Red
#aa3646
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#aa3646
RGB
170, 54, 70
OKLCh
50.7% 0.151 16.5°
CIELAB (D50)
41.2, 48.8, 18.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 74% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 80.5; on black, Lc -21.4. 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 28.6 and 36.0 and 47.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.32:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.33:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.32:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#aa3646
protanopia
#4f4f47 · ΔE00 28.6
deuteranopia
#6a6a41 · ΔE00 36.0
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 47.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isToasted Truffle at ΔE00 0.566: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Toasted TruffleΔE00 0.566 · #aa3344
- American BeautyΔE00 1.566 · #a73340
- AmoreΔE00 1.739 · #ae2f48
- MoonroseΔE00 1.888 · #a53f48
- Wine & RosesΔE00 1.932 · #a33540
- Chubby KissΔE00 1.979 · #b43548
- FloriographyΔE00 2.037 · #a54049
- Pop of PoppyΔE00 2.084 · #a13741
- RadishΔE00 2.1 · #a42e41
- Frosted PomegranateΔE00 2.198 · #ad3d46
- Eternal FlameΔE00 2.257 · #a13f49
- CherryadeΔE00 2.268 · #b22743
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.