Purple Seduction
#522a6f
A violet that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#522a6f
RGB
82, 42, 111
OKLCh
37.2% 0.118 308.5°
CIELAB (D50)
25.3, 29.2, -33.1
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 62% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.9; on black, Lc -7.7. 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 10.4 and 10.2 and 50.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.94:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.92:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.94:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#522a6f
protanopia
#30306f · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#39396f · ΔE00 10.2
tritanopia
#414100 · ΔE00 50.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMystic Nights at ΔE00 2.879: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Mystic NightsΔE00 2.879 · #4b2c74
- Elegant Purple GownΔE00 2.961 · #552367
- Violet IndigoΔE00 3.048 · #482d67
- ViolethargicΔE00 3.06 · #5a226f
- Foggy AmethystΔE00 3.183 · #57317e
- Fading HorizonΔE00 3.358 · #442266
- Deep AmethystΔE00 3.691 · #5b3082
- Abra PurpleΔE00 3.815 · #462e6e
- RegaliaΔE00 3.889 · #522d80
- Kingfisher DaisyΔE00 4.005 · #583580
- Prism VioletΔE00 4.09 · #53357d
- Lounge VioletΔE00 4.426 · #5e336d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.