Hibernation
#6f5166
A magenta 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
#6f5166
RGB
111, 81, 102
OKLCh
47.4% 0.051 337.8°
CIELAB (D50)
38.3, 15.7, -7.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 24% 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 83.8; on black, Lc -18.2. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 13.0 and 13.5 and 39.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.04:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6f5166
protanopia
#555566 · ΔE00 13.0
deuteranopia
#5b5b65 · ΔE00 13.5
tritanopia
#616100 · ΔE00 39.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEarth Brown Violet at ΔE00 1.577: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Earth Brown VioletΔE00 1.577 · #705364
- RadicchioΔE00 1.692 · #745166
- Hothouse OrchidΔE00 1.754 · #755468
- Exotic OrchidΔE00 1.948 · #75566c
- PassionateΔE00 1.967 · #725062
- Berry ConserveΔE00 2.075 · #765269
- Dark Olive PasteΔE00 2.267 · #6e5160
- DynamicΔE00 2.274 · #6d5160
- Dahlia Matte RedΔE00 2.456 · #765067
- Vicarious VioletΔE00 2.596 · #664e62
- Opium MauveΔE00 2.673 · #735362
- ExclusivelyΔE00 2.81 · #6b515f
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.