Chubby Kiss
#b43548
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b43548
RGB
180, 53, 72
OKLCh
52.3% 0.163 16.4°
CIELAB (D50)
42.9, 52.5, 20.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.5; on black, Lc -23.2. 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 29.5 and 37.8 and 49.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.54:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b43548
protanopia
#515149 · ΔE00 29.5
deuteranopia
#6f6f43 · ΔE00 37.8
tritanopia
#878700 · ΔE00 49.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRomantic Embers at ΔE00 1.878: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Romantic EmbersΔE00 1.878 · #b23e4f
- Roses Are RedΔE00 1.979 · #aa3646
- Rust EffectΔE00 2.1 · #bb3344
- Frosted PomegranateΔE00 2.159 · #ad3d46
- Toasted TruffleΔE00 2.174 · #aa3344
- CherryadeΔE00 2.282 · #b22743
- AmoreΔE00 2.311 · #ae2f48
- Hot HibiscusΔE00 2.318 · #bb2244
- Bleeding HeartΔE00 2.407 · #c02e4c
- Con BrioΔE00 2.457 · #b12845
- Timeless BeautyΔE00 2.489 · #b6273e
- Dry RoseΔE00 2.77 · #c22f4d
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.