Imperial
#602f6b
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#602f6b
RGB
96, 47, 107
OKLCh
39.6% 0.111 320.0°
CIELAB (D50)
28.2, 30.2, -25.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.7; on black, Lc -9.8. 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 13.6 and 13.3 and 50.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.12:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#602f6b
protanopia
#37376b · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#42426a · ΔE00 13.3
tritanopia
#4c4c00 · ΔE00 50.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLounge Violet at ΔE00 1.428: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Lounge VioletΔE00 1.428 · #5e336d
- Imperial PurpleΔE00 1.56 · #5b3167
- Purple MagicΔE00 2.19 · #653475
- SeanceΔE00 2.214 · #69326e
- Purple ProtégéΔE00 2.826 · #593569
- WineberryΔE00 3.17 · #663366
- PlumΔE00 3.324 · #66386a
- ComtesseΔE00 3.345 · #6c3877
- HeartlessΔE00 3.38 · #623b70
- Galactic GrapevineΔE00 3.385 · #6b327b
- Kuwanomi PurpleΔE00 3.518 · #55295b
- CharismaΔE00 3.527 · #632a60
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.