Fancy Red Wine
#b40441
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b40441
RGB
180, 4, 65
OKLCh
49.2% 0.195 12.7°
CIELAB (D50)
38.8, 63.1, 19.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 81.5; on black, Lc -20.4. 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 41.5 and 53.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.03:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b40441
protanopia
#414142 · ΔE00 28.6
deuteranopia
#67673a · ΔE00 41.5
tritanopia
#838300 · ΔE00 53.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRuby Queen at ΔE00 1.131: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ruby QueenΔE00 1.131 · #b0063d
- M. BisonΔE00 1.162 · #b4023d
- Bindi RedΔE00 1.303 · #b0003c
- Red ParacentrotusΔE00 1.378 · #bb0044
- CarmoisineΔE00 1.385 · #b31c45
- French WineΔE00 1.762 · #ac1e44
- Rural RedΔE00 1.89 · #bb1144
- Red Tuna FruitΔE00 1.974 · #b41b40
- Screamer PinkΔE00 2.172 · #ab0040
- Pure PassionΔE00 2.324 · #b40039
- Bloody PeriphyllaΔE00 2.463 · #aa1144
- BresaolaΔE00 2.474 · #a9203e
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.