Heron
#6a6887
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
#6a6887
RGB
106, 104, 135
OKLCh
53.1% 0.048 287.6°
CIELAB (D50)
45.1, 6.1, -16.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 17% 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 76.5; on black, Lc -25.2. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
5.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.94:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6a6887
protanopia
#686887 · ΔE00 0.9
deuteranopia
#696987 · ΔE00 0.9
tritanopia
#696983 · ΔE00 2.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDaemonette Hide at ΔE00 0.912: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Daemonette HideΔE00 0.912 · #696684
- Luscious LavenderΔE00 0.97 · #696987
- Hyacinth ArbourΔE00 1.781 · #6c6783
- Dark PrinceΔE00 1.969 · #6b6c89
- AromaticΔE00 2.524 · #706986
- Pharaoh PurpleΔE00 2.669 · #636285
- Purple DazeΔE00 2.861 · #63647e
- Twilight PurpleΔE00 2.944 · #65648b
- Purple GumballΔE00 3.122 · #6a6283
- Blue PotatoΔE00 3.199 · #64617b
- UnexplainedΔE00 3.341 · #69667c
- Swollen SkyΔE00 3.365 · #67667c
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.