Wine Tour
#653b66
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#653b66
RGB
101, 59, 102
OKLCh
42.0% 0.086 326.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.4, 24.5, -17.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.1; on black, Lc -12.2. 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 13.6 and 14.0 and 46.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.86:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.37:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.86:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#653b66
protanopia
#414166 · ΔE00 13.6
deuteranopia
#4a4a65 · ΔE00 14.0
tritanopia
#535300 · ΔE00 46.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBerry Light at ΔE00 0.591: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Berry LightΔE00 0.591 · #673b66
- Purple OdysseyΔE00 1.28 · #643e65
- PlumΔE00 1.798 · #66386a
- MajestyΔE00 1.994 · #673e6e
- Long Passionate NightΔE00 2.505 · #5b365e
- WineberryΔE00 2.604 · #663366
- Opulent PurpleΔE00 2.613 · #673362
- Purple SplendourΔE00 2.948 · #5e3b6a
- Passion RazzΔE00 2.979 · #59355e
- Magenta Red LipsΔE00 3.014 · #62416d
- Purple WineberryΔE00 3.269 · #5a395b
- Royal PlumΔE00 3.342 · #654161
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.