Akari Red
#c90b42
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#c90b42
RGB
201, 11, 66
OKLCh
53.4% 0.209 15.7°
CIELAB (D50)
43.6, 67.7, 25.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 98% 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 76.7; on black, Lc -25.0. 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 32.3 and 44.3 and 55.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.61:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#c90b42
protanopia
#4a4a43 · ΔE00 32.3
deuteranopia
#747439 · ΔE00 44.3
tritanopia
#939300 · ΔE00 55.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrucified Red at ΔE00 0.765: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Crucified RedΔE00 0.765 · #cc0044
- Comforting CherryΔE00 0.838 · #cc1144
- Flame LilyΔE00 0.983 · #ce0644
- LycheeΔE00 1.141 · #cd0c41
- Ski PatrolΔE00 1.527 · #c9133e
- RubyΔE00 1.653 · #ca0147
- Ahmar RedΔE00 1.705 · #c22147
- Spanish CarmineΔE00 1.743 · #d10047
- Bright MaroonΔE00 1.77 · #c32148
- Red JalapeñoΔE00 1.793 · #c01141
- ToreadorΔE00 1.876 · #cd123f
- Blueberry LemonadeΔE00 1.897 · #d01343
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.