Shredder Lavender
#7737aa
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7737aa
RGB
119, 55, 170
OKLCh
47.9% 0.178 306.3°
CIELAB (D50)
36.5, 44.1, -51.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 72% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 84.4; on black, Lc -17.6. 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 12.8 and 12.8 and 61.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.21:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.91:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.21:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7737aa
protanopia
#4242aa · ΔE00 12.8
deuteranopia
#5050a9 · ΔE00 12.8
tritanopia
#5d5d00 · ΔE00 61.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPurple Pristine at ΔE00 0.829: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Purple PristineΔE00 0.829 · #7733aa
- ShinerΔE00 1.237 · #773ca7
- Purple HeartΔE00 3.143 · #69359c
- Poppy PompadourΔE00 3.281 · #6b3fa0
- Skeletor’s CapeΔE00 3.358 · #773399
- Fuchsia NebulaΔE00 3.709 · #7722aa
- Rebecca PurpleΔE00 3.877 · #663399
- Pleasant PurpleΔE00 3.905 · #8833aa
- Pheromone PurpleΔE00 4.363 · #8822bb
- Sweet FlagΔE00 4.876 · #674196
- Harley Hair PurpleΔE00 4.893 · #8547b5
- Orb of DiscordΔE00 5.004 · #772299
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.