Voldemort
#2d135f
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2d135f
RGB
45, 19, 95
OKLCh
27.9% 0.124 291.8°
CIELAB (D50)
14.1, 28.1, -41.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.7; 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 5.2 and 5.5 and 9.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.37:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2d135f
protanopia
#17175f · ΔE00 5.2
deuteranopia
#1d1d5f · ΔE00 5.5
tritanopia
#222242 · ΔE00 9.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInfinite Inkwell at ΔE00 1.267: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Infinite InkwellΔE00 1.267 · #2f1064
- Night FogΔE00 1.651 · #2d1962
- Candied BlueberryΔE00 1.692 · #331166
- Nebula NightΔE00 2.292 · #281367
- Praise of ShadowΔE00 2.423 · #221155
- Wicked PurpleΔE00 3.036 · #37115c
- Fabric of SpaceΔE00 3.08 · #341758
- Indigo SlothΔE00 3.087 · #1f0954
- Ocean AbyssΔE00 3.121 · #221166
- VanishingΔE00 3.371 · #331155
- Dark DreamsΔE00 3.898 · #332266
- Darth TorusΔE00 3.95 · #1d045d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.