Meteorite
#4a3b6a
A violet 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
#4a3b6a
RGB
74, 59, 106
OKLCh
39.0% 0.079 297.3°
CIELAB (D50)
28.2, 15.4, -25.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 37% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.8; on black, Lc -9.6. 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 15.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.12:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4a3b6a
protanopia
#3d3d6a · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#40406a · ΔE00 4.8
tritanopia
#43434b · ΔE00 15.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGeode at ΔE00 1.729: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GeodeΔE00 1.729 · #4b3f69
- Succinct VioletΔE00 2.08 · #513b6e
- Izmir PurpleΔE00 2.33 · #4d426e
- Raw AmethystΔE00 2.636 · #544173
- Mulberry PurpleΔE00 2.66 · #4a3c62
- Evening MauveΔE00 2.774 · #463f67
- Opera BlueΔE00 2.848 · #453e6e
- PetuniaΔE00 3.221 · #4d3466
- When Red Met BlueΔE00 3.252 · #564375
- Jakarta SkylineΔE00 3.542 · #3d325d
- Loden PurpleΔE00 3.726 · #553a76
- MinskΔE00 3.789 · #3e3267
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.