Pomegranate
#b53d45
A red that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#b53d45
RGB
181, 61, 69
OKLCh
53.3% 0.155 20.3°
CIELAB (D50)
44.2, 49.6, 23.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.3; on black, Lc -24.4. 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 30.7 and 37.1 and 46.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.72:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b53d45
protanopia
#565646 · ΔE00 30.7
deuteranopia
#72723f · ΔE00 37.1
tritanopia
#898900 · ΔE00 46.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDragon’s Blood at ΔE00 1.01: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dragon’s BloodΔE00 1.01 · #b84048
- Chinese SafflowerΔE00 1.172 · #b94047
- Rust EffectΔE00 1.839 · #bb3344
- Intrigue RedΔE00 1.854 · #b24648
- Frosted PomegranateΔE00 1.887 · #ad3d46
- Precious PeonyΔE00 1.933 · #bd4048
- Lusty RedΔE00 2.038 · #b1383d
- Fire-Breathing DragonΔE00 2.057 · #bf3747
- Cherry BombΔE00 2.119 · #b73d3f
- Striking RedΔE00 2.125 · #c03543
- Winterberry FrostΔE00 2.175 · #b4474d
- Baked AppleΔE00 2.193 · #b34646
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.