Dry Rose
#c22f4d
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c22f4d
RGB
194, 47, 77
OKLCh
54.3% 0.182 14.6°
CIELAB (D50)
44.9, 59.1, 20.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 84% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 76.2; on black, Lc -25.6. 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 29.6 and 40.4 and 52.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.52:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.81:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.52:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c22f4d
protanopia
#53534e · ΔE00 29.6
deuteranopia
#757547 · ΔE00 40.4
tritanopia
#909000 · ΔE00 52.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBleeding Heart at ΔE00 0.497: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Bleeding HeartΔE00 0.497 · #c02e4c
- Dingy DungeonΔE00 1.068 · #c53151
- Zǎo Hóng MaroonΔE00 1.41 · #c1264c
- Possessed RedΔE00 1.412 · #c2264d
- Maroon FlushΔE00 1.44 · #c32249
- GrenadeΔE00 1.534 · #c32149
- Bright MaroonΔE00 1.569 · #c32148
- Ahmar RedΔE00 1.72 · #c22147
- French RaspberryΔE00 1.906 · #c72c48
- Rose RedΔE00 2.058 · #c92351
- Virtual PinkΔE00 2.378 · #cf184b
- JazzyΔE00 2.447 · #c31e4e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.