Possessed Red
#c2264d
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c2264d
RGB
194, 38, 77
OKLCh
53.6% 0.190 13.0°
CIELAB (D50)
44.0, 61.6, 18.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 89% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 77.0; on black, Lc -24.8. 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 28.5 and 41.0 and 54.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.68:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c2264d
protanopia
#4f4f4e · ΔE00 28.5
deuteranopia
#737347 · ΔE00 41.0
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 54.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZǎo Hóng Maroon at ΔE00 0.285: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Zǎo Hóng MaroonΔE00 0.285 · #c1264c
- GrenadeΔE00 1.007 · #c32149
- Maroon FlushΔE00 1.043 · #c32249
- JazzyΔE00 1.055 · #c31e4e
- Bleeding HeartΔE00 1.212 · #c02e4c
- Bright MaroonΔE00 1.282 · #c32148
- Dry RoseΔE00 1.412 · #c22f4d
- Rose RedΔE00 1.479 · #c92351
- Ahmar RedΔE00 1.493 · #c22147
- California SunsetΔE00 1.69 · #ca1850
- Dingy DungeonΔE00 1.8 · #c53151
- RubyΔE00 2.119 · #ca0147
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.