Grape
#6c3461
A magenta that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6c3461
RGB
108, 52, 97
OKLCh
41.5% 0.100 335.1°
CIELAB (D50)
30.7, 30.2, -15.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 54% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 90.7; on black, Lc -11.7. 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 16.9 and 17.4 and 48.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.30:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6c3461
protanopia
#3d3d61 · ΔE00 16.9
deuteranopia
#4a4a60 · ΔE00 17.4
tritanopia
#555500 · ΔE00 48.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGloxinia at ΔE00 1.473: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- GloxiniaΔE00 1.473 · #693162
- Opulent PurpleΔE00 1.648 · #673362
- Ayame IrisΔE00 2.292 · #763568
- Intense MauveΔE00 2.752 · #682d63
- Velvet MauveΔE00 2.767 · #692b57
- Burnt OrchidΔE00 2.79 · #743d68
- Pretty in PruneΔE00 2.808 · #6b295a
- WineberryΔE00 2.899 · #663366
- Berry LightΔE00 2.968 · #673b66
- ByzantiumΔE00 3.126 · #702963
- Palatinate PurpleΔE00 3.394 · #682860
- Wine TourΔE00 3.446 · #653b66
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.