Purple Patch
#5c2e88
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5c2e88
RGB
92, 46, 136
OKLCh
40.8% 0.145 304.2°
CIELAB (D50)
29.0, 34.9, -42.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 68% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.6; on black, Lc -10.8. 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 10.3 and 52.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.20:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5c2e88
protanopia
#363688 · ΔE00 10.4
deuteranopia
#404088 · ΔE00 10.3
tritanopia
#494912 · ΔE00 52.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Amethyst at ΔE00 1.343: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Deep AmethystΔE00 1.343 · #5b3082
- Night FeverΔE00 1.379 · #572e89
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 1.883 · #632f92
- True PurpleΔE00 1.994 · #65318e
- Violet MagicianΔE00 2.054 · #64338b
- Foggy AmethystΔE00 2.197 · #57317e
- RegaliaΔE00 2.223 · #522d80
- Kingfisher DaisyΔE00 2.682 · #583580
- Queens of the DeadΔE00 2.772 · #652793
- Sick BlueΔE00 2.832 · #502d86
- PurplexΔE00 2.866 · #602287
- KSU PurpleΔE00 2.917 · #512888
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.