Mystic Nights
#4b2c74
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4b2c74
RGB
75, 44, 116
OKLCh
37.0% 0.119 300.5°
CIELAB (D50)
25.0, 27.0, -36.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 95.1; on black, Lc -7.6. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.8 and 7.7 and 28.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.99:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.99:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4b2c74
protanopia
#313174 · ΔE00 7.8
deuteranopia
#373774 · ΔE00 7.7
tritanopia
#3e3e37 · ΔE00 28.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbra Purple at ΔE00 1.801: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Abra PurpleΔE00 1.801 · #462e6e
- WindsorΔE00 1.811 · #462c77
- RegaliaΔE00 2.316 · #522d80
- Her HighnessΔE00 2.32 · #432e6f
- Prism VioletΔE00 2.753 · #53357d
- Foggy AmethystΔE00 2.784 · #57317e
- Purple SeductionΔE00 2.879 · #522a6f
- Violet IndigoΔE00 3.026 · #482d67
- Spanish VioletΔE00 3.215 · #4c2882
- Fading HorizonΔE00 3.298 · #442266
- Sick BlueΔE00 3.387 · #502d86
- Kingfisher DaisyΔE00 3.394 · #583580
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.