Drifting Violet
#5b4276
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5b4276
RGB
91, 66, 118
OKLCh
42.9% 0.088 305.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.5, 19.6, -26.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 89.0; on black, Lc -13.2. 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 7.8 and 7.5 and 37.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.45:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.45:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5b4276
protanopia
#454576 · ΔE00 7.8
deuteranopia
#4a4a76 · ΔE00 7.5
tritanopia
#505031 · ΔE00 37.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIn the Vines at ΔE00 1.353: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- In the VinesΔE00 1.353 · #5c457b
- When Red Met BlueΔE00 1.685 · #564375
- Raw AmethystΔE00 1.892 · #544173
- Cyber GrapeΔE00 2.272 · #58427c
- Blue TulipΔE00 2.546 · #5c4671
- Royal RobeΔE00 2.603 · #614a7b
- Picasso LilyΔE00 2.653 · #634878
- Succinct VioletΔE00 2.729 · #513b6e
- Purple FeatherΔE00 2.753 · #594670
- Impulsive PurpleΔE00 2.869 · #624977
- RegalityΔE00 2.895 · #664480
- Violet MajestyΔE00 2.926 · #644982
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.