Heartless
#623b70
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#623b70
RGB
98, 59, 112
OKLCh
42.1% 0.096 316.7°
CIELAB (D50)
31.4, 25.1, -23.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 47% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.0; on black, Lc -12.3. 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 11.7 and 11.5 and 48.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.83:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.83:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#623b70
protanopia
#414170 · ΔE00 11.7
deuteranopia
#49496f · ΔE00 11.5
tritanopia
#515100 · ΔE00 48.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Splendour at ΔE00 1.573: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Purple SplendourΔE00 1.573 · #5e3b6a
- Honey FlowerΔE00 1.737 · #5c3c6d
- MajestyΔE00 2.142 · #673e6e
- Grape PopsicleΔE00 2.272 · #60406d
- Lounge VioletΔE00 2.356 · #5e336d
- Purple ProtégéΔE00 2.38 · #593569
- PlumΔE00 2.567 · #66386a
- Magenta Red LipsΔE00 2.576 · #62416d
- Kikyō PurpleΔE00 2.743 · #5d3f6a
- Dark PansyΔE00 2.794 · #653d7c
- Purple MagicΔE00 2.819 · #653475
- ComtesseΔE00 2.869 · #6c3877
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.