Purple Prose
#543254
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
#543254
RGB
84, 50, 84
OKLCh
37.2% 0.071 326.9°
CIELAB (D50)
26.1, 20.4, -14.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 41% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.7; on black, Lc -7.9. 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 12.7 and 13.4 and 41.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.71:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.96:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.71:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#543254
protanopia
#373754 · ΔE00 12.7
deuteranopia
#3e3e53 · ΔE00 13.4
tritanopia
#454500 · ΔE00 41.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPlum Skin at ΔE00 1.529: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Plum SkinΔE00 1.529 · #51304e
- Auricula PurpleΔE00 1.749 · #533552
- Japanese VioletΔE00 1.98 · #5b3256
- Purple ShadeΔE00 2.012 · #4e2e53
- Grape RoyaleΔE00 2.035 · #522f57
- Spanish PlumΔE00 2.115 · #5c3357
- Purple WineberryΔE00 2.194 · #5a395b
- Blackberry CordialΔE00 2.338 · #4f3357
- GrimaceΔE00 2.366 · #50314c
- Long Passionate NightΔE00 2.431 · #5b365e
- Passion RazzΔE00 2.472 · #59355e
- Shadow PurpleΔE00 2.627 · #4e334e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.