Poppy Pompadour
#6b3fa0
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6b3fa0
RGB
107, 63, 160
OKLCh
46.9% 0.152 301.7°
CIELAB (D50)
35.9, 34.9, -46.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 61% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.3; on black, Lc -16.8. 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 9.9 and 9.8 and 39.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.84:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b3fa0
protanopia
#4646a0 · ΔE00 9.9
deuteranopia
#4f4fa0 · ΔE00 9.8
tritanopia
#585844 · ΔE00 39.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSweet Flag at ΔE00 1.939: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sweet FlagΔE00 1.939 · #674196
- Purple HeartΔE00 2.558 · #69359c
- ShinerΔE00 2.738 · #773ca7
- Rebecca PurpleΔE00 3.173 · #663399
- Shredder LavenderΔE00 3.281 · #7737aa
- StudioΔE00 3.339 · #724aa1
- Daisy BushΔE00 3.822 · #5b3e90
- Purple PristineΔE00 3.826 · #7733aa
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 4.489 · #632f92
- Ruthless EmpressΔE00 4.499 · #573894
- True PurpleΔE00 4.536 · #65318e
- Violet MagicianΔE00 4.605 · #64338b
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.