Opulent Purple
#673362
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#673362
RGB
103, 51, 98
OKLCh
40.7% 0.099 330.9°
CIELAB (D50)
29.7, 29.1, -17.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 91.5; on black, Lc -10.9. 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 15.7 and 16.0 and 48.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.23:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#673362
protanopia
#3c3c62 · ΔE00 15.7
deuteranopia
#474761 · ΔE00 16.0
tritanopia
#525200 · ΔE00 48.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGloxinia at ΔE00 0.793: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GloxiniaΔE00 0.793 · #693162
- WineberryΔE00 1.389 · #663366
- GrapeΔE00 1.648 · #6c3461
- Intense MauveΔE00 1.83 · #682d63
- Berry LightΔE00 2.359 · #673b66
- PlumΔE00 2.492 · #66386a
- CharismaΔE00 2.553 · #632a60
- Wine TourΔE00 2.613 · #653b66
- Palatinate PurpleΔE00 2.852 · #682860
- Spanish PlumΔE00 3.335 · #5c3357
- SeanceΔE00 3.356 · #69326e
- ByzantiumΔE00 3.368 · #702963
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.