Passion Flower
#6f5698
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6f5698
RGB
111, 86, 152
OKLCh
50.7% 0.105 300.2°
CIELAB (D50)
41.4, 21.6, -32.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 80.2; on black, Lc -21.6. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.1 and 6.7 and 25.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
6.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.46:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at6.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6f5698
protanopia
#595998 · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#5e5e98 · ΔE00 6.7
tritanopia
#63635f · ΔE00 25.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRollick at ΔE00 0.602: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- RollickΔE00 0.602 · #6d5698
- Pure MauveΔE00 2.105 · #6f5390
- Sumire VioletΔE00 2.44 · #7058a3
- JuneberryΔE00 2.81 · #775496
- Parfait d’AmourΔE00 2.871 · #734f96
- Just a FairytaleΔE00 2.898 · #6c5d97
- Butterfly BushΔE00 2.981 · #68578c
- Prophet VioletΔE00 3.219 · #6f58a6
- Magenta VioletΔE00 3.432 · #6c5389
- Classic WaltzΔE00 3.434 · #71588d
- ZimidarΔE00 3.758 · #6a5287
- Emperor JewelΔE00 3.789 · #715a8d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.