Royal Crown
#4f325e
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4f325e
RGB
79, 50, 94
OKLCh
37.1% 0.081 313.3°
CIELAB (D50)
25.9, 20.2, -21.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.8; on black, Lc -7.8. 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 9.7 and 9.8 and 44.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.77:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.95:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.77:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f325e
protanopia
#36365e · ΔE00 9.7
deuteranopia
#3c3c5e · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#424200 · ΔE00 44.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isScarlet Gum at ΔE00 1.744: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Scarlet GumΔE00 1.744 · #4a2d57
- Damson MauveΔE00 2.226 · #583563
- Deep PlumΔE00 2.368 · #4a2a59
- Blackberry CordialΔE00 2.487 · #4f3357
- PetuniaΔE00 2.727 · #4d3466
- Grape RoyaleΔE00 2.803 · #522f57
- Purple ProtégéΔE00 2.814 · #593569
- AcaiΔE00 2.994 · #48295b
- Purpurite VioletΔE00 3.072 · #57385e
- Purple ShadeΔE00 3.103 · #4e2e53
- Passion RazzΔE00 3.178 · #59355e
- Imperial PurpleΔE00 3.455 · #5b3167
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.