Plummy
#675a75
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#675a75
RGB
103, 90, 117
OKLCh
49.0% 0.045 306.6°
CIELAB (D50)
40.3, 9.7, -13.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 81.7; on black, Lc -20.2. 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 6.0 and 6.2 and 24.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.30:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#675a75
protanopia
#5c5c75 · ΔE00 6.0
deuteranopia
#5e5e75 · ΔE00 6.2
tritanopia
#61614f · ΔE00 24.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMulled Grape at ΔE00 0.364: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Mulled GrapeΔE00 0.364 · #675a74
- Indigo RedΔE00 1.207 · #695a78
- Rich TextureΔE00 1.428 · #645671
- Violet HazeΔE00 1.491 · #675b72
- Regal GownΔE00 1.947 · #655777
- Princely VioletΔE00 2.18 · #6d5c7b
- Napa WineryΔE00 2.224 · #6a5c7d
- Head Over HeelsΔE00 2.782 · #605972
- Antique GreyΔE00 3.122 · #69576d
- Purple PassageΔE00 3.224 · #645e77
- ArraignΔE00 3.346 · #5c546e
- Orchid GreyΔE00 3.363 · #5e5871
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.