Dark Prom Queen
#2b0f2e
A magenta that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2b0f2e
RGB
43, 15, 46
OKLCh
22.8% 0.068 323.7°
CIELAB (D50)
9.4, 18.9, -14.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 63% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 104.0; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 11.0 and 12.0 and 33.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
17.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.21:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at17.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2b0f2e
protanopia
#14142e · ΔE00 11.0
deuteranopia
#1a1a2e · ΔE00 12.0
tritanopia
#202000 · ΔE00 33.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCultist Robe at ΔE00 2.006: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Cultist RobeΔE00 2.006 · #331233
- SynallactidaΔE00 2.081 · #331133
- Black SabbathΔE00 3.293 · #220022
- BlackcurrantΔE00 3.836 · #2e183b
- Globe ThistleΔE00 4.009 · #2e0329
- Nightly VoyagerΔE00 4.255 · #391531
- Cured EggplantΔE00 4.61 · #380835
- BlacklistΔE00 4.639 · #221133
- Exquisite EggplantΔE00 5.459 · #330033
- Poisonous PurpleΔE00 5.473 · #2a0134
- PorphyrophobiaΔE00 5.5 · #2a0033
- Meški BlackΔE00 5.594 · #1f0b1e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.