Saffron Desires
#c24359
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c24359
RGB
194, 67, 89
OKLCh
56.6% 0.162 13.7°
CIELAB (D50)
47.8, 52.6, 16.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 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 73.4; on black, Lc -28.3. 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 28.0 and 37.2 and 51.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.24:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c24359
protanopia
#5d5d5a · ΔE00 28.0
deuteranopia
#7b7b54 · ΔE00 37.2
tritanopia
#949400 · ΔE00 51.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isThai Spice at ΔE00 1.609: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Thai SpiceΔE00 1.609 · #bb4455
- Nakabeni PinkΔE00 1.885 · #c93756
- Cherry LollyΔE00 2.09 · #c8385a
- Infrared GlozeΔE00 2.444 · #cc3355
- Salsa DianeΔE00 2.49 · #bb4f5c
- Claret RedΔE00 2.666 · #c84c61
- PopstarΔE00 2.671 · #be4f62
- New Brick RedΔE00 2.676 · #cb4154
- Merlot MagicΔE00 2.78 · #b64055
- Dingy DungeonΔE00 2.793 · #c53151
- Umbria RedΔE00 2.933 · #b54753
- Lingonberry RedΔE00 2.986 · #ce4458
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.