In the Vines
#5c457b
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#5c457b
RGB
92, 69, 123
OKLCh
43.9% 0.090 302.5°
CIELAB (D50)
33.7, 19.2, -27.3
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 87.9; on black, Lc -14.2. 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 7.0 and 6.8 and 31.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.59:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#5c457b
protanopia
#48487b · ΔE00 7.0
deuteranopia
#4d4d7b · ΔE00 6.8
tritanopia
#515142 · ΔE00 31.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDrifting Violet 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.
- Drifting VioletΔE00 1.353 · #5b4276
- When Red Met BlueΔE00 1.619 · #564375
- Cyber GrapeΔE00 1.621 · #58427c
- Violet MajestyΔE00 2.073 · #644982
- Raw AmethystΔE00 2.131 · #544173
- Royal RobeΔE00 2.149 · #614a7b
- Sumptuous PurpleΔE00 2.273 · #604c81
- Gentian VioletΔE00 2.662 · #57487f
- RegalityΔE00 2.837 · #664480
- Picasso LilyΔE00 2.874 · #634878
- Impulsive PurpleΔE00 3.026 · #624977
- Grand PurpleΔE00 3.08 · #534778
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.