Galaxea
#2e305e
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2e305e
RGB
46, 48, 94
OKLCh
33.2% 0.080 279.2°
CIELAB (D50)
21.6, 10.0, -28.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 40% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.0; 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.
- 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
12.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.70:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2e305e
protanopia
#30305e · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#2f2f5e · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#2f2f61 · ΔE00 0.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Sea Base at ΔE00 1.696: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Sea BaseΔE00 1.696 · #2c2c57
- Deep KoamaruΔE00 1.842 · #343467
- Quill TipΔE00 2.11 · #2d3359
- Rhynchites NitensΔE00 2.743 · #383867
- Very BlueΔE00 2.803 · #33365b
- Ceremonial PurpleΔE00 2.982 · #2a2756
- Midnight EscapadeΔE00 3.003 · #2b3458
- Deep BreathΔE00 3.197 · #27275f
- Underwater RealmΔE00 3.269 · #243062
- Lucky PointΔE00 3.284 · #292d4f
- Purple NoirΔE00 3.372 · #322c56
- WahooΔE00 3.577 · #272d4e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.