Purple Pristine
#7733aa
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7733aa
RGB
119, 51, 170
OKLCh
47.4% 0.183 306.8°
CIELAB (D50)
35.8, 46.0, -52.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 75% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 85.0; on black, Lc -17.0. 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 13.2 and 13.3 and 62.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.84:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7733aa
protanopia
#3f3faa · ΔE00 13.2
deuteranopia
#4f4fa9 · ΔE00 13.3
tritanopia
#5c5c00 · ΔE00 62.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isShredder Lavender at ΔE00 0.829: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Shredder LavenderΔE00 0.829 · #7737aa
- ShinerΔE00 2.01 · #773ca7
- Fuchsia NebulaΔE00 2.881 · #7722aa
- Purple HeartΔE00 3.105 · #69359c
- Skeletor’s CapeΔE00 3.223 · #773399
- Rebecca PurpleΔE00 3.746 · #663399
- Poppy PompadourΔE00 3.826 · #6b3fa0
- Pleasant PurpleΔE00 3.894 · #8833aa
- Pheromone PurpleΔE00 3.912 · #8822bb
- Orb of DiscordΔE00 4.373 · #772299
- Lucid DreamsΔE00 4.805 · #632f92
- Noble Cause PurpleΔE00 4.835 · #7e1e9c
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.