Murasaki
#4f284b
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
#4f284b
RGB
79, 40, 75
OKLCh
34.3% 0.078 331.0°
CIELAB (D50)
22.6, 22.9, -13.7
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 50% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 97.4; 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 14.0 and 14.9 and 41.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.09:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.09:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f284b
protanopia
#2e2e4b · ΔE00 14.0
deuteranopia
#37374a · ΔE00 14.9
tritanopia
#3f3f00 · ΔE00 41.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isOpulent Mauve at ΔE00 2.28: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Opulent MauveΔE00 2.28 · #462343
- Plum SkinΔE00 2.587 · #51304e
- Purple VoidΔE00 2.718 · #442244
- Purple ShadeΔE00 2.878 · #4e2e53
- Purple ProseΔE00 2.99 · #543254
- Grape RoyaleΔE00 3.202 · #522f57
- GrimaceΔE00 3.373 · #50314c
- Japanese VioletΔE00 3.388 · #5b3256
- Spanish PlumΔE00 3.704 · #5c3357
- Prestige MauveΔE00 3.889 · #4c213d
- Winter BloomΔE00 4.027 · #582d48
- Potent PurpleΔE00 4.038 · #532d45
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.