Cotinga Purple
#340059
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#340059
RGB
52, 0, 89
OKLCh
26.3% 0.138 303.6°
CIELAB (D50)
11.8, 36.3, -40.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.0; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.7 and 9.8 and 45.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.28:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.29:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.28:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#340059
protanopia
#0d0d59 · ΔE00 8.7
deuteranopia
#1a1a59 · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#232300 · ΔE00 45.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHollow Knight at ΔE00 0.771: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Hollow KnightΔE00 0.771 · #330055
- Deep VioletΔE00 2.762 · #330066
- Wicked PurpleΔE00 2.985 · #37115c
- VanishingΔE00 3.435 · #331155
- CrowberryΔE00 3.739 · #220055
- Ripe PlumΔE00 3.746 · #410056
- Candied BlueberryΔE00 4.049 · #331166
- Obsidian ShellΔE00 4.071 · #441166
- Infinite InkwellΔE00 4.22 · #2f1064
- Your DarknessΔE00 4.402 · #220044
- VoldemortΔE00 4.627 · #2d135f
- Fabric of SpaceΔE00 4.7 · #341758
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.