Pretty in Prune
#6b295a
A magenta that is muted. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#6b295a
RGB
107, 41, 90
OKLCh
39.4% 0.113 338.8°
CIELAB (D50)
28.1, 34.6, -14.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 66% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 92.8; on black, Lc -9.7. 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 18.6 and 19.0 and 48.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.05:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.09:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.05:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b295a
protanopia
#35355a · ΔE00 18.6
deuteranopia
#454559 · ΔE00 19.0
tritanopia
#525200 · ΔE00 48.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isForest Fruit Red at ΔE00 0.988: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Forest Fruit RedΔE00 0.988 · #6e2759
- Velvet MauveΔE00 1.105 · #692b57
- ByzantiumΔE00 2.182 · #702963
- Palatinate PurpleΔE00 2.453 · #682860
- GloxiniaΔE00 2.785 · #693162
- GrapeΔE00 2.808 · #6c3461
- Intense MauveΔE00 3.006 · #682d63
- Opulent PurpleΔE00 3.416 · #673362
- CharismaΔE00 3.468 · #632a60
- Ayame IrisΔE00 3.763 · #763568
- Ebizome PurpleΔE00 3.823 · #6d2b50
- Grape JuiceΔE00 4.027 · #772f6c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.