Shadow Purple
#4e334e
A magenta 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
#4e334e
RGB
78, 51, 78
OKLCh
36.4% 0.058 326.7°
CIELAB (D50)
25.4, 16.4, -11.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 95.4; 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 11.5 and 12.2 and 38.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.01:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.01:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4e334e
protanopia
#37374e · ΔE00 11.5
deuteranopia
#3c3c4e · ΔE00 12.2
tritanopia
#424200 · ΔE00 38.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChive Bloom at ΔE00 1.05: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chive BloomΔE00 1.05 · #4f3650
- Auricula PurpleΔE00 1.37 · #533552
- GrimaceΔE00 1.408 · #50314c
- Plum SkinΔE00 1.91 · #51304e
- Oregon GrapeΔE00 2.467 · #49354e
- Purple PennantΔE00 2.498 · #452e4a
- Dark BlackberryΔE00 2.509 · #533958
- Velvet PlumΔE00 2.54 · #573a56
- LoulouΔE00 2.579 · #4c3347
- Purple ProseΔE00 2.627 · #543254
- Blackberry CordialΔE00 3.087 · #4f3357
- Purple ShadeΔE00 3.356 · #4e2e53
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.