Bureaucracy
#746c8f
A violet 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
#746c8f
RGB
116, 108, 143
OKLCh
55.2% 0.054 295.0°
CIELAB (D50)
47.4, 9.0, -18.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 74.0; on black, Lc -27.7. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.90:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.28:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.90:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#746c8f
protanopia
#6d6d8f · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#6e6e8f · ΔE00 3.4
tritanopia
#70707c · ΔE00 9.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Silhouette at ΔE00 0.982: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Purple SilhouetteΔE00 0.982 · #776d90
- Parisian VioletΔE00 1.58 · #787093
- Arabian SilkΔE00 2.092 · #786e97
- RhythmΔE00 2.109 · #767194
- Purple GrapesΔE00 2.221 · #736993
- AromaticΔE00 2.385 · #706986
- BeetsΔE00 2.588 · #736a86
- Nymph’s DelightΔE00 2.912 · #7b6c8e
- Hyacinth ArbourΔE00 3.387 · #6c6783
- HeronΔE00 3.407 · #6a6887
- Posy PurpleΔE00 3.429 · #6e6386
- Capercaillie MauveΔE00 3.636 · #78728c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.