Voluptuous Violet
#7711dd
A violet that is about as vivid as sRGB can show at this lightness. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7711dd
RGB
119, 17, 221
OKLCh
49.2% 0.259 296.8°
CIELAB (D50)
35.8, 65.8, -82.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 97% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 83.1; on black, Lc -18.9. 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 10.6 and 11.8 and 20.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.22:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.22:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7711dd
protanopia
#2c2cdd · ΔE00 10.6
deuteranopia
#4444dc · ΔE00 11.8
tritanopia
#565677 · ΔE00 20.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrown Chakra at ΔE00 1.95: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Crown ChakraΔE00 1.95 · #701dce
- Puissant PurpleΔE00 2.304 · #7722cc
- Purple BlueΔE00 3.748 · #661aee
- Purple ProtestΔE00 3.793 · #8822dd
- Trusted PurpleΔE00 3.959 · #6600cc
- Poisoning PurpleΔE00 3.978 · #7f01fe
- Bright IndigoΔE00 4.058 · #6f00fe
- Sagat PurpleΔE00 4.061 · #6a31ca
- Violent VioletΔE00 4.078 · #7f00ff
- French VioletΔE00 4.114 · #8806ce
- Nasu PurpleΔE00 4.367 · #5d21d0
- Hokkaido LavenderΔE00 4.463 · #7736d9
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.