Her Highness
#432e6f
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#432e6f
RGB
67, 46, 111
OKLCh
36.1% 0.108 295.4°
CIELAB (D50)
24.2, 22.2, -34.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 55% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.8; 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 5.6 and 5.5 and 12.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.86:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#432e6f
protanopia
#31316f · ΔE00 5.6
deuteranopia
#35356f · ΔE00 5.5
tritanopia
#39394c · ΔE00 12.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbra Purple at ΔE00 1.021: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Abra PurpleΔE00 1.021 · #462e6e
- WindsorΔE00 1.916 · #462c77
- Mystic NightsΔE00 2.32 · #4b2c74
- Galactic CompassΔE00 2.691 · #48357b
- MinskΔE00 2.838 · #3e3267
- Clear PurpleΔE00 3.063 · #412a7a
- Violet IndigoΔE00 3.079 · #482d67
- Prism VioletΔE00 3.791 · #53357d
- ChristalleΔE00 3.931 · #382161
- Fading HorizonΔE00 4.07 · #442266
- Dark DreamsΔE00 4.151 · #332266
- RegaliaΔE00 4.172 · #522d80
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.