Velvet Cosmos
#441144
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#441144
RGB
68, 17, 68
OKLCh
28.7% 0.104 327.9°
CIELAB (D50)
15.7, 30.0, -19.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 79% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 101.2; 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 14.4 and 15.0 and 43.3 — 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
#441144
protanopia
#1c1c44 · ΔE00 14.4
deuteranopia
#282843 · ΔE00 15.0
tritanopia
#323200 · ΔE00 43.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEggplant at ΔE00 2.013: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- EggplantΔE00 2.013 · #430541
- Pion PurpleΔE00 2.364 · #480840
- Alien PurpleΔE00 2.402 · #490648
- Christmas PurpleΔE00 2.766 · #4d084b
- Shani PurpleΔE00 2.862 · #4c1050
- JacartaΔE00 2.97 · #440044
- Cured EggplantΔE00 3.43 · #380835
- Beaten PurpleΔE00 3.763 · #4e0550
- Greek AubergineΔE00 3.81 · #3d0734
- Dark PurpleΔE00 4.005 · #35063e
- Cosmic ExplorerΔE00 4.223 · #551155
- Romanic SceneΔE00 4.244 · #3b0346
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.