Clairvoyant
#480656
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#480656
RGB
72, 6, 86
OKLCh
29.8% 0.135 319.3°
CIELAB (D50)
16.2, 37.6, -31.3
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 94% 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 100.3; 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 13.8 and 14.3 and 48.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.44:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#480656
protanopia
#181856 · ΔE00 13.8
deuteranopia
#272755 · ΔE00 14.3
tritanopia
#333300 · ΔE00 48.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRipe Plum at ΔE00 2.128: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Ripe PlumΔE00 2.128 · #410056
- Beaten PurpleΔE00 2.873 · #4e0550
- Shani PurpleΔE00 3.101 · #4c1050
- God of NightsΔE00 3.317 · #550066
- Romanic SceneΔE00 3.355 · #3b0346
- Cloak and DaggerΔE00 3.578 · #550055
- Alien PurpleΔE00 3.985 · #490648
- Christmas PurpleΔE00 4.063 · #4d084b
- JacartaΔE00 4.128 · #440044
- Cosmic ExplorerΔE00 4.192 · #551155
- Velvet VortexΔE00 4.526 · #540d6e
- Obsidian ShellΔE00 4.581 · #441166
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.