Her Velour
#bb5f62
A red that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#bb5f62
RGB
187, 95, 98
OKLCh
59.6% 0.119 19.3°
CIELAB (D50)
51.8, 38.0, 16.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 69.1; on black, Lc -32.6. 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 27.6 and 31.5 and 44.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.26:1 — large text only
Black text
4.93:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at4.93:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#b75b5e is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#bb5f62
protanopia
#6e6e63 · ΔE00 27.6
deuteranopia
#83835f · ΔE00 31.5
tritanopia
#969600 · ΔE00 44.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEnergy Peak at ΔE00 0.709: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Energy PeakΔE00 0.709 · #bb5f60
- Strawberry RhubarbΔE00 1.161 · #b96364
- Faded RoseΔE00 1.858 · #bf6464
- Terra RosaΔE00 1.909 · #bb6569
- Pimm’sΔE00 2.343 · #c3585c
- Lord BaltimoreΔE00 2.681 · #b76764
- Cinnamon CandleΔE00 2.712 · #b15d63
- Hibiscus FlowerΔE00 2.717 · #bc555e
- Stormy PassionΔE00 2.776 · #c36666
- Pink FlameΔE00 2.802 · #b55a63
- Lasting ImpressionΔE00 2.815 · #b36663
- Wild PoppyΔE00 3.021 · #b85b57
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.