Scampi
#6f63a0
A violet that is muted. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#6f63a0
RGB
111, 99, 160
OKLCh
53.7% 0.094 291.9°
CIELAB (D50)
45.1, 15.7, -31.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 33% 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 76.2; on black, Lc -25.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
5.29:1 — passes AA
Black text
3.97:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at5.29:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#6f63a0
protanopia
#6464a0 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#6767a0 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#696989 · ΔE00 7.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isJust a Fairytale at ΔE00 2.534: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Just a FairytaleΔE00 2.534 · #6c5d97
- Inner JourneyΔE00 2.543 · #6d69a1
- Reign Over MeΔE00 2.704 · #76679e
- PandoraΔE00 2.762 · #71689a
- Genestealer PurpleΔE00 2.825 · #7761ab
- Giant OnionΔE00 2.864 · #665d9e
- Prime PurpleΔE00 3.167 · #656293
- Corsican BlueΔE00 3.171 · #646093
- Dark HorizonΔE00 3.2 · #666699
- Purple ParadiseΔE00 3.62 · #79669d
- Wintertime MauveΔE00 3.807 · #786daa
- ColossusΔE00 3.814 · #625c91
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.