Acai
#48295b
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#48295b
RGB
72, 41, 91
OKLCh
34.4% 0.091 311.1°
CIELAB (D50)
22.5, 22.5, -24.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 52% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.3; 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 9.5 and 9.5 and 44.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#48295b
protanopia
#2e2e5b · ΔE00 9.5
deuteranopia
#34345b · ΔE00 9.5
tritanopia
#3b3b00 · ΔE00 44.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Plum at ΔE00 1.161: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep PlumΔE00 1.161 · #4a2a59
- Queen’s DomainΔE00 1.306 · #472557
- Wonka PurpleΔE00 1.62 · #4a2559
- Galactic WonderΔE00 1.987 · #442255
- Scarlet GumΔE00 2.396 · #4a2d57
- Royal CrownΔE00 2.994 · #4f325e
- Violet IndigoΔE00 3.278 · #482d67
- Obsidian OrchidΔE00 3.416 · #3f1d50
- PetuniaΔE00 3.47 · #4d3466
- Plunged Into DarknessΔE00 3.526 · #431c53
- Kuwanomi PurpleΔE00 3.976 · #55295b
- Powerful VioletΔE00 4.176 · #372252
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.