Midnight Masquerade
#2c2e47
A violet 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
#2c2e47
RGB
44, 46, 71
OKLCh
31.1% 0.045 279.9°
CIELAB (D50)
19.6, 4.5, -16.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 10 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 only 24% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.5; 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
13.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.59:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2c2e47
protanopia
#2e2e47 · ΔE00 1.0
deuteranopia
#2d2d47 · ΔE00 1.0
tritanopia
#2d2d4b · ΔE00 2.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack Blueberry at ΔE00 1.069: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Black BlueberryΔE00 1.069 · #2f2f48
- Blue RegalΔE00 1.267 · #303048
- Wild IrisΔE00 1.332 · #2f2f4a
- Black VioletΔE00 1.359 · #2b2c42
- ValhallaΔE00 1.519 · #2a2b41
- Evening BlueΔE00 1.699 · #2b2b41
- Plum FuzzΔE00 1.705 · #313048
- Sea GoingΔE00 1.717 · #2a2e44
- Deep VelvetΔE00 1.826 · #313248
- Tropical Night BlueΔE00 1.953 · #2a2e4c
- Latin CharmΔE00 2.123 · #292e44
- PeacoatΔE00 2.282 · #2d3146
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.