Dark Prince
#6b6c89
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
#6b6c89
RGB
107, 108, 137
OKLCh
54.1% 0.045 283.2°
CIELAB (D50)
46.4, 4.6, -16.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 75.1; on black, Lc -26.6. 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
5.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.13:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6b6c89
protanopia
#6c6c89 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#6c6c89 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#6c6c8b · ΔE00 1.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLuscious Lavender at ΔE00 1.206: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Luscious LavenderΔE00 1.206 · #696987
- Great GrapeΔE00 1.866 · #6b6d85
- HeronΔE00 1.969 · #6a6887
- Daemonette HideΔE00 2.713 · #696684
- Stormy MauveΔE00 3.005 · #71738c
- Campanula PurpleΔE00 3.099 · #6c6d94
- Hyacinth ArbourΔE00 3.186 · #6c6783
- Purple DazeΔE00 3.271 · #63647e
- Silk Crepe MauveΔE00 3.304 · #6e7196
- Swollen SkyΔE00 3.476 · #67667c
- Wild WisteriaΔE00 3.493 · #686b93
- AromaticΔE00 3.707 · #706986
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.