Neon Violet
#674876
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#674876
RGB
103, 72, 118
OKLCh
45.4% 0.082 314.2°
CIELAB (D50)
35.5, 20.4, -21.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 36% 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 86.3; on black, Lc -15.8. 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 10.1 and 10.2 and 47.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.59:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.77:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.59:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#674876
protanopia
#4c4c76 · ΔE00 10.1
deuteranopia
#535376 · ΔE00 10.2
tritanopia
#595900 · ΔE00 47.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isClary at ΔE00 0.445: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ClaryΔE00 0.445 · #684976
- BenevolenceΔE00 0.532 · #694977
- Perfectly PurpleΔE00 0.636 · #694878
- Presley PurpleΔE00 1.18 · #634875
- Picasso LilyΔE00 1.646 · #634878
- Palace PurpleΔE00 1.821 · #68457a
- HyssopΔE00 1.843 · #6d4976
- Impulsive PurpleΔE00 1.87 · #624977
- Royal RajahΔE00 2.261 · #60456d
- GengianaΔE00 2.406 · #5f4871
- Magenta Red LipsΔE00 2.469 · #62416d
- Pageantry PurpleΔE00 2.545 · #68447c
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.