Beetroot Purple
#d33376
A pink that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#d33376
RGB
211, 51, 118
OKLCh
58.6% 0.201 0.5°
CIELAB (D50)
49.5, 65.0, 1.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 85% 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 71.0; on black, Lc -30.7. 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 30.4 and 34.4 and 61.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.66:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.50:1 — passes AA
White text is the better of the two at4.66:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#d33376
protanopia
#5a5a77 · ΔE00 30.4
deuteranopia
#808072 · ΔE00 34.4
tritanopia
#9d9d00 · ΔE00 61.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFuchsia Purple at ΔE00 0.71: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Fuchsia PurpleΔE00 0.71 · #d33479
- MagentaramaΔE00 0.862 · #cf3476
- Qermez RedΔE00 1.899 · #cf3c71
- Pink PeacockΔE00 2.015 · #d3236f
- Self-LoveΔE00 2.061 · #d22b6d
- Jaipur PinkΔE00 2.277 · #d0417e
- Fuchsia RoseΔE00 2.426 · #c74375
- Rubber BandΔE00 2.776 · #ce4676
- Vampire Love StoryΔE00 2.829 · #dd0077
- Pink YarrowΔE00 2.855 · #d13d82
- Magenta ElephantΔE00 2.863 · #de0170
- Raspberry SorbetΔE00 2.968 · #d2386c
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.