Bindi Red
#b0003c
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b0003c
RGB
176, 0, 60
OKLCh
48.2% 0.193 13.8°
CIELAB (D50)
37.7, 62.3, 20.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit 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 82.5; on black, Lc -19.4. 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 28.8 and 41.5 and 52.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b0003c
protanopia
#3e3e3d · ΔE00 28.8
deuteranopia
#646435 · ΔE00 41.5
tritanopia
#808000 · ΔE00 52.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRuby Queen at ΔE00 0.284: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Ruby QueenΔE00 0.284 · #b0063d
- M. BisonΔE00 0.906 · #b4023d
- Fancy Red WineΔE00 1.303 · #b40441
- RougeΔE00 1.473 · #ab1239
- Pure PassionΔE00 1.626 · #b40039
- BresaolaΔE00 1.962 · #a9203e
- Warlock RedΔE00 2.094 · #b50038
- Screamer PinkΔE00 2.137 · #ab0040
- Red Tuna FruitΔE00 2.168 · #b41b40
- French WineΔE00 2.212 · #ac1e44
- CarmoisineΔE00 2.324 · #b31c45
- Hot LavaΔE00 2.442 · #aa0033
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.