Fabric of Space
#341758
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#341758
RGB
52, 23, 88
OKLCh
28.6% 0.111 299.8°
CIELAB (D50)
15.3, 26.0, -34.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 73% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.3; 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 7.1 and 7.2 and 24.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.41:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#341758
protanopia
#1c1c58 · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#222258 · ΔE00 7.2
tritanopia
#282827 · ΔE00 24.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVanishing at ΔE00 1.482: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- VanishingΔE00 1.482 · #331155
- Wicked PurpleΔE00 1.968 · #37115c
- Russian VioletΔE00 2.643 · #32174d
- ChristalleΔE00 2.841 · #382161
- VoldemortΔE00 3.08 · #2d135f
- Oily PurpleΔE00 3.562 · #2d0f47
- Night FogΔE00 3.62 · #2d1962
- Candied BlueberryΔE00 3.699 · #331166
- Infinite InkwellΔE00 3.89 · #2f1064
- Fading HorizonΔE00 3.923 · #442266
- Praise of ShadowΔE00 4.217 · #221155
- Stormy NightΔE00 4.258 · #372354
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.