Child of the Night
#220077
A violet that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#220077
RGB
34, 0, 119
OKLCh
27.8% 0.169 279.4°
CIELAB (D50)
12.4, 40.3, -59.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.1; on black, Lc 0.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.33:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#220077
protanopia
#060677 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#0f0f77 · ΔE00 3.8
tritanopia
#161667 · ΔE00 5.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPrunelle at ΔE00 1.336: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- PrunelleΔE00 1.336 · #220878
- Bavarian GentianΔE00 1.52 · #20006d
- Quantum of LightΔE00 1.795 · #130173
- Insomniac BlueΔE00 1.895 · #110077
- Orbital KingdomΔE00 2.49 · #220088
- BlackmailΔE00 2.736 · #220066
- Galactic FederationΔE00 2.783 · #330077
- Deep BlueΔE00 2.902 · #040273
- Outer RimΔE00 2.916 · #221177
- Scotch BlueΔE00 2.993 · #000077
- The Vast of NightΔE00 3.012 · #110066
- Navy BlueΔE00 3.219 · #000080
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.