Kingfisher Daisy
#583580
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#583580
RGB
88, 53, 128
OKLCh
40.9% 0.123 302.9°
CIELAB (D50)
29.5, 28.3, -37.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 57% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.4; on black, Lc -11.0. 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 8.9 and 8.7 and 39.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.24:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#583580
protanopia
#3a3a80 · ΔE00 8.9
deuteranopia
#424280 · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#494930 · ΔE00 39.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFoggy Amethyst 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.
- Foggy AmethystΔE00 1.104 · #57317e
- Prism VioletΔE00 1.211 · #53357d
- Deep AmethystΔE00 1.72 · #5b3082
- Tillandsia PurpleΔE00 2.504 · #60397f
- RegaliaΔE00 2.525 · #522d80
- Purple PatchΔE00 2.682 · #5c2e88
- Night FeverΔE00 2.933 · #572e89
- Loden PurpleΔE00 3.04 · #553a76
- Violet MagicianΔE00 3.044 · #64338b
- Mystic NightsΔE00 3.394 · #4b2c74
- Sick BlueΔE00 3.547 · #502d86
- True PurpleΔE00 3.612 · #65318e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.