Prophet Violet
#6f58a6
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6f58a6
RGB
111, 88, 166
OKLCh
51.9% 0.121 295.5°
CIELAB (D50)
42.5, 23.3, -39.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 43% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 78.9; on black, Lc -22.9. 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 6.0 and 5.7 and 12.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.62:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6f58a6
protanopia
#5b5ba6 · ΔE00 6.0
deuteranopia
#5f5fa6 · ΔE00 5.7
tritanopia
#64647b · ΔE00 12.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSumire Violet at ΔE00 0.833: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sumire VioletΔE00 0.833 · #7058a3
- Simply PurpleΔE00 2.211 · #715bb1
- RollickΔE00 2.94 · #6d5698
- Genestealer PurpleΔE00 3.215 · #7761ab
- Passion FlowerΔE00 3.219 · #6f5698
- Blue MargueriteΔE00 3.341 · #6a5bb1
- Giant OnionΔE00 3.364 · #665d9e
- Royal LavenderΔE00 3.459 · #7851a9
- Ultrapurple MergeΔE00 3.609 · #654ea3
- Purple OpulenceΔE00 3.725 · #60569a
- Just a FairytaleΔE00 3.901 · #6c5d97
- ScampiΔE00 4.212 · #6f63a0
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.