Indie Go
#2e2364
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2e2364
RGB
46, 35, 100
OKLCh
31.0% 0.110 285.8°
CIELAB (D50)
18.3, 20.2, -37.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.9; 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
13.63:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.54:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.63:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2e2364
protanopia
#242464 · ΔE00 2.7
deuteranopia
#272764 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#292957 · ΔE00 4.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Dreams at ΔE00 1.404: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Dark DreamsΔE00 1.404 · #332266
- Paris MΔE00 1.93 · #312760
- Cluedo NightΔE00 2.261 · #2b245a
- Deep BreathΔE00 2.815 · #27275f
- Intergalactic CowboyΔE00 2.979 · #222266
- Night FogΔE00 2.985 · #2d1962
- ChristalleΔE00 3.371 · #382161
- After Work BlueΔE00 3.475 · #24246d
- SpacescapeΔE00 3.529 · #222255
- Deep Space RodeoΔE00 3.59 · #332277
- Ceremonial PurpleΔE00 3.819 · #2a2756
- Explorer of the GalaxiesΔE00 4.264 · #3a1f76
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.