Purple Void
#442244
A magenta 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
#442244
RGB
68, 34, 68
OKLCh
31.2% 0.073 327.2°
CIELAB (D50)
19.2, 21.0, -14.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 51% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.7; 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 12.6 and 13.5 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.48:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.56:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.48:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#442244
protanopia
#272744 · ΔE00 12.6
deuteranopia
#2f2f43 · ΔE00 13.5
tritanopia
#363600 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOpulent Mauve at ΔE00 0.992: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Opulent MauveΔE00 0.992 · #462343
- MurasakiΔE00 2.718 · #4f284b
- Profound MauveΔE00 2.997 · #40243d
- Purple ShadeΔE00 3.891 · #4e2e53
- Purple PennantΔE00 4.358 · #452e4a
- Plum SkinΔE00 4.385 · #51304e
- Prestige MauveΔE00 4.399 · #4c213d
- Kokimurasaki PurpleΔE00 4.5 · #3a243b
- Aubergine MauveΔE00 4.535 · #3b2741
- Juice VioletΔE00 4.537 · #442238
- Grape RoyaleΔE00 4.665 · #522f57
- Nightly VoyagerΔE00 4.684 · #391531
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.