Maharaja
#3f354f
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#3f354f
RGB
63, 53, 79
OKLCh
35.1% 0.046 301.7°
CIELAB (D50)
24.1, 9.2, -14.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 25% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 96.4; 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.0 and 17.8 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.45:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.45:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3f354f
protanopia
#36364f · ΔE00 4.8
deuteranopia
#38384f · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#3a3a35 · ΔE00 17.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCaddies Silk at ΔE00 0.843: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Caddies SilkΔE00 0.843 · #3e354d
- Devil’s PlumΔE00 1.75 · #423450
- Call It a NightΔE00 2.001 · #42364c
- Chrysomela GoettingensisΔE00 2.286 · #39334a
- Purple PlumeriaΔE00 2.507 · #473854
- Purple VelvetΔE00 2.524 · #483b56
- Gothic GrapeΔE00 2.591 · #473951
- Naggaroth NightΔE00 2.618 · #3d3354
- Sanctum of ShadowsΔE00 2.651 · #3c2f4e
- PlushΔE00 2.924 · #3b3549
- Acai BerryΔE00 3.13 · #42314b
- Obsidian Lava BlackΔE00 3.287 · #382b46
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.