Deep Space Rodeo
#332277
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#332277
RGB
51, 34, 119
OKLCh
33.1% 0.137 285.3°
CIELAB (D50)
20.1, 27.2, -46.9
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 71% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.4; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.64:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#332277
protanopia
#242477 · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#282877 · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#2b2b66 · ΔE00 5.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isExplorer of the Galaxies at ΔE00 2.079: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Explorer of the GalaxiesΔE00 2.079 · #3a1f76
- Blue RoyaleΔE00 2.21 · #29217a
- Clear PurpleΔE00 3.238 · #412a7a
- Dark DreamsΔE00 3.398 · #332266
- SnorlaxΔE00 3.43 · #222277
- IndiglowΔE00 3.481 · #301885
- After Work BlueΔE00 3.582 · #24246d
- Indie GoΔE00 3.59 · #2e2364
- Persian IndigoΔE00 3.824 · #32127a
- Galactic CivilizationΔE00 3.859 · #442288
- Night FogΔE00 4.039 · #2d1962
- Intergalactic CowboyΔE00 4.132 · #222266
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.