Occult
#4b1e87
A violet that is saturated. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4b1e87
RGB
75, 30, 135
OKLCh
36.6% 0.162 297.1°
CIELAB (D50)
23.6, 38.4, -51.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 81% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.5; 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 8.2 and 8.6 and 17.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.45:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.83:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.45:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4b1e87
protanopia
#262687 · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#303087 · ΔE00 8.6
tritanopia
#39394b · ΔE00 17.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPitch Violet at ΔE00 1.916: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Pitch VioletΔE00 1.916 · #4a148c
- Galactic CivilizationΔE00 1.982 · #442288
- American VioletΔE00 2.117 · #551b8c
- Eggplant TintΔE00 2.144 · #531b93
- Kalish VioletΔE00 2.285 · #552288
- KSU PurpleΔE00 2.389 · #512888
- Spanish VioletΔE00 2.492 · #4c2882
- Indigo GirlsΔE00 2.562 · #4d0e88
- Grim PurpleΔE00 2.577 · #441188
- Eine Kleine NachtmusikΔE00 3.041 · #552299
- Banafš VioletΔE00 3.139 · #5a1991
- Intergalactic SettlementΔE00 3.377 · #5b1e8b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.