Romantic Embers
#b23e4f
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b23e4f
RGB
178, 62, 79
OKLCh
53.1% 0.150 15.2°
CIELAB (D50)
44.0, 48.7, 17.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.6; on black, Lc -24.2. 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 28.1 and 35.8 and 48.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.68:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.69:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.68:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b23e4f
protanopia
#565650 · ΔE00 28.1
deuteranopia
#71714a · ΔE00 35.8
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 48.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMerlot Magic at ΔE00 1.639: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Merlot MagicΔE00 1.639 · #b64055
- Chubby KissΔE00 1.878 · #b43548
- Cherry WineΔE00 1.905 · #b04556
- Umbria RedΔE00 2.216 · #b54753
- Raspberry WineΔE00 2.317 · #b63753
- Thai SpiceΔE00 2.542 · #bb4455
- Frosted PomegranateΔE00 2.661 · #ad3d46
- Roses Are RedΔE00 2.723 · #aa3646
- Carmine CarnationΔE00 2.852 · #ad4b53
- FloriographyΔE00 2.891 · #a54049
- Bleeding HeartΔE00 2.972 · #c02e4c
- MoonroseΔE00 2.988 · #a53f48
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.