Galactic Compass
#48357b
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#48357b
RGB
72, 53, 123
OKLCh
38.8% 0.114 292.8°
CIELAB (D50)
27.3, 22.3, -37.6
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 53% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 93.3; on black, Lc -9.2. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.14:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.07:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.14:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#48357b
protanopia
#38387b · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#3b3b7b · ΔE00 4.8
tritanopia
#3f3f5d · ΔE00 9.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWindsor at ΔE00 2.652: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- WindsorΔE00 2.652 · #462c77
- Her HighnessΔE00 2.691 · #432e6f
- Prism VioletΔE00 2.932 · #53357d
- Abra PurpleΔE00 3.174 · #462e6e
- Majestic EggplantΔE00 3.288 · #443388
- Clear PurpleΔE00 3.304 · #412a7a
- Mystic NightsΔE00 3.522 · #4b2c74
- Sage VioletΔE00 3.613 · #413c7b
- Sick BlueΔE00 3.827 · #502d86
- RegaliaΔE00 3.924 · #522d80
- Blue GemΔE00 3.931 · #4b3c8e
- Nauseous BlueΔE00 4.012 · #483d8b
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.