Candy Grape Fizz
#7755ee
A violet that is saturated. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#7755ee
RGB
119, 85, 238
OKLCh
57.1% 0.218 287.6°
CIELAB (D50)
46.7, 43.2, -73.9
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 87% 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 73.2; on black, Lc -28.5. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.7 and 5.8 and 7.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
4.86:1 — passes AA
Black text
4.32:1 — large text only
White text is the better of the two at4.86:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#7755ee
protanopia
#5a5aee · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#6161ee · ΔE00 5.8
tritanopia
#6867c7 · ΔE00 7.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVenetian Nights at ΔE00 2.129: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Venetian NightsΔE00 2.129 · #7755ff
- Purple HoneycreeperΔE00 3.658 · #8855ff
- Gloomy PurpleΔE00 3.869 · #8756e4
- Astro PurpleΔE00 4.292 · #6d5acf
- Sweet EscapeΔE00 4.629 · #8844ff
- Pink OCDΔE00 4.695 · #6844fc
- AmeixaΔE00 4.736 · #6a5acd
- Majorelle BlueΔE00 4.869 · #6050dc
- Aconite PurpleΔE00 4.956 · #7249d6
- Pericallis HybridaΔE00 5.201 · #904fef
- Dark PeriwinkleΔE00 5.362 · #665fd1
- Medium Slate BlueΔE00 5.465 · #7b68ee
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.