Romanic Scene
#3b0346
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#3b0346
RGB
59, 3, 70
OKLCh
25.9% 0.119 320.1°
CIELAB (D50)
12.0, 33.2, -27.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 96% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.3; 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 12.7 and 13.4 and 43.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.31:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.29:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.31:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3b0346
protanopia
#111146 · ΔE00 12.7
deuteranopia
#1f1f45 · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#292900 · ΔE00 43.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Purple at ΔE00 1.466: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep PurpleΔE00 1.466 · #36013f
- Dark VioletΔE00 1.638 · #34013f
- Dark PurpleΔE00 2.056 · #35063e
- Edge of SpaceΔE00 2.076 · #330044
- JacartaΔE00 2.944 · #440044
- ClairvoyantΔE00 3.355 · #480656
- Ripe PlumΔE00 3.487 · #410056
- EggplantΔE00 3.558 · #430541
- Alien PurpleΔE00 3.729 · #490648
- Purple DoorΔE00 3.809 · #331144
- Shani PurpleΔE00 4.111 · #4c1050
- Beaten PurpleΔE00 4.127 · #4e0550
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.