Secret Affair
#c41661
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c41661
RGB
196, 22, 97
OKLCh
53.6% 0.206 3.4°
CIELAB (D50)
43.6, 66.4, 5.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 95% 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 76.9; 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 30.7 and 37.6 and 59.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.78:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.63:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.78:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c41661
protanopia
#4a4a62 · ΔE00 30.7
deuteranopia
#72725c · ΔE00 37.6
tritanopia
#8f8f00 · ΔE00 59.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRowan at ΔE00 1.175: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- RowanΔE00 1.175 · #cb0162
- Vampiric BloodlustΔE00 1.611 · #cc0066
- Xīpe Totēc RedΔE00 1.641 · #cc1166
- Yearning DesireΔE00 1.835 · #ca135e
- Sensitive ScorpionΔE00 2.416 · #cc2266
- Chaotic RosesΔE00 2.437 · #bb2266
- Bright RoseΔE00 2.47 · #c51959
- Maroon LightΔE00 2.751 · #bf3160
- Love PotionΔE00 2.808 · #ce145e
- Velvet MagicΔE00 2.923 · #bb1155
- Valentine’s KissΔE00 3.039 · #b63364
- GranitaΔE00 3.047 · #b62758
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.