Haunted Candelabra
#57446a
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#57446a
RGB
87, 68, 106
OKLCh
42.3% 0.066 306.7°
CIELAB (D50)
32.1, 14.6, -19.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% 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 89.5; on black, Lc -12.7. 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 7.2 and 7.3 and 33.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.61:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.44:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.61:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#57446a
protanopia
#46466a · ΔE00 7.2
deuteranopia
#4a4a6a · ΔE00 7.3
tritanopia
#4e4e31 · ΔE00 33.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isProper Purple at ΔE00 1.104: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Proper PurpleΔE00 1.104 · #59476b
- Purple FeatherΔE00 1.477 · #594670
- Woad PurpleΔE00 1.507 · #584769
- Velvet BeretΔE00 1.521 · #5c466b
- Blue TulipΔE00 1.803 · #5c4671
- Purple ReignΔE00 1.85 · #5c4971
- When Blue Met RedΔE00 1.904 · #584165
- Sunset SerenadeΔE00 2.047 · #594265
- GengianaΔE00 2.186 · #5f4871
- Wild GrapesΔE00 2.313 · #5e496c
- LoganberryΔE00 2.593 · #5f4b6f
- Nightly WalkΔE00 2.654 · #544563
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.